Word: prosaicly
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Congressmen on the floor of the House did their best to realize what a historic announcement had issued from Carl Vinson's prosaic lips. He had, in effect, announced that some time between 1944 and 1946 the U.S. would emerge as a world power fabulously more dominant than Britain ever...
There is a comparatively unimpressive building situated on Divinity Avenue, bearing the equally unimpressive name. "Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology." In fact, so prosaic is the appearance of the edifice that, in looks, it has often been compared with a typical. New England shirt factory. In this instance, however, looks and name are deceiving, for within the four walls of that structure are enough "finests" to phase the most blatant, peep show touter. Who would guess, for example, that there are more dead queens residing in that Museum than there are live ones in Europe today...
...concert had all the ingredients of a prosaic, academic affair, but the result was anything but stuffy. Three of Johann Sebastian Bach's six famous Brandenburg concertos were to be played by a small body of musicians (such an orchestra as Bach had in mind), with scrupulous regard for the composer's intentions (as deduced from a study of Bach manuscripts), without a conductor (as it would have been played in Bach's day). After Adolf Busch had put his Chamber Music Players through their paces last week in Manhattan's Town Hall-in their first...
...armed forces. Nurse's Aide Corps taught women to take over the routine jobs of nursing, to free trained nurses for other jobs. A blood donor's service filled blood banks for transfusions. With few delusions about women's greatest talents, officials stressed three prosaic training courses for housewives who wanted to help: First Aid, Home Nursing, Nutrition...
...affair between Horatio Nelson and Emma Hamilton is one of the more prosaic of history. He was a frail, prematurely old man who never mastered violent attacks of seasickness; while she was a rather large female who literally towered over her sea-going lover and took consolation in the bottle during his many absences...