Word: cumbrous
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...past the Social Ethics department has been a neglected makeshift composed of men from various allied fields without unity or central control. This lack of definite leadership has retarded progress, and crippled research. A few years ago some attempt was made to simplify this cumbrous arrangement by the introduction of the tutorial system, but even this failed to stimulate any original thought in the unwieldy organization...
...noosed the cumbrous pachyderm of the violin species, has dragged him up out of the orchestral cellar and has revealed him to us as a creature who does not merely gambol with grotesque ponderosity, or grumble in discontented servitude, or speak oracular solemnities, but who can sing with pride and independence and lyric fervor, with something of the cello's poignantly vibrant utterance in its upper register, yet with a fullness of body, a dark and beautiful austerity, and an amplitude of sombre richness that no cello is able to attain...
...much law making strains the judicial and administrative machinery and makes them less effective for their purpose. Cumbrous, expensive, dilatory judicial administration and a substantive law, inadequate to the new conditions of manufacturing and marketing and industrial organization strain the machinery of legislation and of administration, since they cause us to turn from the judicial department in matters that ought to be dealt with judicially, and attempt vainly to do the work of courts by legislation or by administration...
...Everett, who has the eye of a connoisseur, was not dismayed. He had seen the statue of which he was sent to get a reproduction. It was wrapped in a cumbrous toga. He could not help comparing it to a modern dressing-gown...
Liberalism in the last analysis is a state of the mind. Do what it will with the cumbrous formulae of entrance requirements, lectures, and schedules of courses no college administrative office can maintain a spirit of liberalism in the face of undergraduate bias, snobbery, or provincialism. Only by the origination and perpetuation of a tradition of student liberalism will the ideal college be translated into an actuality. Nor is it an answer that the undergraduate body can only reflect the spirit of the times. Since the middle ages Cambridge and Oxford have cherished a tradition of liberalism which has persisted...