Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declaring that serving afternoon tea has become too prosaic, the staff in the Dean's office at Robinson Hall now takes pride in handing out mint balls to itinerant afternoon visitors...
...unpredictable, for in his lambic couplets he has attempted to sound that soothing harmony of compassion tinged with soft, self-childing satire so elusive for the reader to hear yet so pleasant when once heard and held in memory. Whether he succeeds without appearing to descend to the prosaic and the trivial depends entirely on the individual reader...
...must to all men, Death came last week to John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
...strikes all but constituted a lull. Many of them, like the Plymouth four-day walkout of 11,000 workers at Detroit, were caused by jurisdictional disease. Some of them, like the grave diggers of Kansas City who in one day kept ten bodies from burial, originated in nothing less prosaic than demands for union recognition, closed shop and wage increase. However, if strikes failed to make labor news, three utterances...
...small group of newshawks, most of them local and familiar but some of them from out-of-town, stood around the desk of the Governor of Pennsylvania one day last week eying a prosaic-looking man with drooping eyelids. Said Governor George Howard Earle III: "Gentlemen, I have something here that may or may not be important to you but I feel very strongly about it at this time...