Word: drawn-out
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...need half. So unbelievable is the complication of the study card system that Dean Phelps has to give students from the first week in December until the second in February to do the paper work of choosing four courses. Instead of one sharp pain the process is a long drawn-out agony. Instead of one, final card the student is directed to fill out a complete questionnaire before the fourteenth of December, and if he finds out in February that the courses aren't what they seemed to be in the catalog in December, he has to repeat...
Embattled last week on a coast-to-coast picket line, the American Newspaper Guild, in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, charged the New York Times with "coercion and interference with the organization of the employes." In Seattle a drawn-out strike against the Star was stalemated, a new strike against the Bayonne, N. J. Times was met with a drastic injunction forbidding every form of picketing and any attempt to influence other employes. But in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the Guild won a notable victory as it ended a strike against the Record: effective Jan. 1 all editorial...
...this tedious business of trying to observe Lent as a long drawn-out season of six weeks were discarded; if most of the parish schedules of daily services were thrown in the waste basket; if the little half-baked priestlets who want...
...corners in sun or rain but also the well-fed youngster who puts in an hour or two after school serving a delivery route in the residential district. But whatever their number and their methods of work, U. S. newsboys were this week's issue in the long drawn-out warfare of the American Newspaper Publishers Association against NRA. When the Press Code was drawn up last winter the publishers haggled over three points: 1) They wanted no possible licensing of newspapers.* 2) They wanted editorial workers getting $35 per week or more classified as "professional men," and hence...
...problem of training the ignorant Soviet worker in the technique of specialized industrial production is portrayed at the Fine Arts Theater this week in "Men and Jobs," the latest release of the Amkino Corporation from U.S.S.R. studios. The film is a rather drawn-out disconnected affair which develops the following thesis: eager but uncomprehending peasant workers cannot equal the productive efficiency of America because they do not understand the intricate new machinery with which they work. If they can be educated to use the machinery properly, however their added enthusiasm will eventually make the Soviet output even greater than that...