Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endless curtain speeches at the recent opening of the new Repertory Theatre, someone dropped a remark to the effect that Shakespeare and Sheridan remained always true to their art, and never lowered themselves by writing down to popular taste. Giving currency to such an idea is surely unfortunate, particularly at this time. Few play-wrights have even gauged the market with greater acumen than these two: and few ever wrote more distinctly to please the common man. It is greatly to be regretted that a play like "The School for Scandal" which was written originally for the entertainment...
...objection to the daily newspaper is that it is too great a strain on the eyes, and consumes too much time and attention to pore through its endless columns to extract a grain of wheat from mountains of chaff. But TIME does not exhibit a greater discrimination between essential and nonessential facts. Facts that vitally affect the progress of human affairs throughout the world, facts of business and industry, of scientific discovery and achievement, of race and political and religious belief, are half glimpsed or wholly ignored or suppressed...
...conclude that millions of dollars appropriated by Congress during the past few years for this development program have been squandered in a purposeless, meaningless, endless experimental orgy. Surely it is not too much to expect that the millions spent should have purchased more than is in evidence in tangible results...
...constructing the tutorial conference on the pattern of class instruction, there is equal risk of over-emphasizing the difference between the two. You do not overcome the defects of mere efficiency by mere inefficiency. To light a cigarette, stretch one's legs on the desk, and indulge in aimless, endless talk leads to wisdom no more than does the mechanical taking of notes or the frenzied cramming for an examination. We should watch lest the tutorial method degrade the process of learning into a form of intellectual journalism; in practice it should involve serious work and surely as much preparation...
...prepare new wonders for the public eye-the 18th annual Electrical and Industrial Exposition. Inklings of what was in store were issued: a device enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless" or "radio" knife for surgeons; photograph-transmitting radios-in all, devices numbering over 20,000, developed since Benjamin Franklin (fabulously) drew current from the heavens on a kite string...