Word: prosaic
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...somewhat prosaic preliminary at the Garden tonight, scheduled to begin at 7:45 o'clock, features Boston College and Boston University...
...ideas off the dummy tongues of puppets masquerading as characters, Lillian Hellman has transformed her stage success of a few seasons back into an interesting as well as an intelligent movie. "The Searching Wind" is essentially a point of view rather than a story, but its propaganda is never prosaic...
...future of James Bryant Conant on the national scene is promising but as yet uncertain. It is certain that the next months will find a world figure occupied with what might seem to be the relatively prosaic duties of running Harvard University. But the drama of the local situation must not be minimized because of the smaller stage. Though there are many extenuating circumstances, Harvard finds itself in 1946 at the same cross-roads that provided an opportunity for a new President to strike out in a new direction in 1933. Thirteen years ago it was felt that Conant...
...reissue of Critic Mark Van Doren's prosaic, reasonable book about Poet John Dryden* provoked the New York Post's Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he reproduced a spat between "Seraph Pro" and "Archangel Con," before a Heavenly Critics' jury for the Book of the Aeon Club...
Commercial uses are limited and prosaic-Welsbach gaslight mantles, carbon terminals for projectors, luminous watch dials. Since commercial production has never been reported in Canada, two possibilities are suggested: 1) the materials for Chalk River will be imported; or 2) under the wartime security blackout, a workable deposit of thorium has been discovered in Canada...