Word: prosaic
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...Prosaic inhabitants of the small Idaho towns of Bovill, Orofino, Troy, Elk River, Moscow, Genesee, Lewiston, Orchard, Juliaetta and Kendrick, last week were hunting for a big hole in the earth. More superstitious citizens put their heads together, whispered of miracles. On Christmas Eve they had seen a strang light yellow light rip earthwards through the sky of northern Idaho. Then they heard a deafening crash. The flash was seen as far as Spokane, Wash., over 100 mi. Mrs. Joseph Holland, who said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing...
...Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with a prosaic charge of good, reliable dynamite...
...average preparatory school man's impression of college is gained from the hysteria of football games and his own preconceived notion of the university as a larger edition of his school. Some of these men when they enter the freshman class, are either disillusioned by the prosaic and unromantic nature of the college routine, or else they find the freedom and opportunities for pleasure too tempting and lose their heads with the new freedom...
...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...