Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reverend prelates of the Church of England and its affiliates in other countries (including the U. S. Protestant Episcopal Church), after five weeks of secret deliberation in Lambeth Palace, London (TIME, July 14), last week published 75 resolutions which they had agreed upon. Accompanying the resolutions was a surprisingly prosaic encyclical letter by Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang of Canterbury...
Staidly, solemnly written, this book is impressive. Jenny, whose entry into stage life is told in The House of Joy, develops into a clear character, engaging yet unpleasant, selfish, pathetic in her talents and her indecision. Nico through his consistency attains a sort of prosaic greatness. The main worth of the book, however, is the contrast between two splendidly portrayed environments: the Dutch home, the Dutch stage. The conflict is a familiar theme but the detailed, vigorous painting of the scenes transforms the commonplace material...
...York Central (whose recent construction work has included not only prosaic tracks and embankments but also the gigantic New York Central Building in New York and the striking new Buffalo station...
...served as assistant dean of Harvard, President of the University of Maine, and President of the University of Michigan, uses his wide experience wisely in denouncing many of the antiguated traditions of college organization. The additional merits of eagerness and idealism, which lift this work from the ranks of prosaic scholarship to those of sincere, sound criticism, mark. "The Awakening College" as a pioneer in the field of future educational endeavor...
...engaged in printing and binding these gleanings. The creation of intellectual curiosity, and then of intellectual appreciation, in the minds of a few hundred pupils may be a greater thing than a rehashed Doctor's thesis, but it counts not as much. The great teacher may suffer from a prosaic style when he forsakes the classroom for the more material pen, but he publishes all the same; forced by this vicissitude of present convention...