Word: prosaic
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...amusing and thoroughly entertaining performance before the members of the House, the other House masters, President Conant, and many other prominent members of the faculty. Now even if the play had been poorly done, I would think the CRIMSON would critize it. Certainly enough space is wasted on prosaic reviews of ancient movies at the University. It may be argued that the play was privately given for a select audience and that the CRIMSON had no way of learning about this performance. The CRIMSON'S managing editor, however, lives in Kirkland House. One of the major events of the Houses...
...constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock (with a more prosaic appearance) electrically synchronized with the master every thirty seconds unlocks and resets the two-gram weight which provides all the energy needed by the big pendulum...
...scope, however gifted its new executive director, Donald R. Richberg, may be. For President Roosevelt's action, despite the installation of an old left-winger as the guide and mentor of his refurbished protege, nevertheless is a symptom of subsiding idealistic fever and return to a more normal if prosaic realistic temperature. When governing bodies replace dictators not only do dramatics subside but therewith the chances of detection in case of error. It is true that the President still works the pedals, but obviously he cannot devote the time to the machine that the old autocrat could, and Richberg...
Just at this ebb period in industry, the subject of poverty is especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
...between Mrs. Insull and the spectacular Mme Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...