Word: prosaicly
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...Repulse, painting, polishing and refitting cabins, preparing her to take King George and Queen Elizabeth on their visit this month to Canada and the U. S. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced a sudden switch of plans: Their Majesties would travel not on the Repulse but on the prosaic, old, German-built liner Empress of Australia, known as the Tirpitz before she was handed over to Britain by Germany as part of reparations payment after the World...
...Motors, Ford and Chrysler off against each other so skilfully that he wound up with lavish exhibits from all three. While Heinz held out for a pickle-shaped building, Grover Whalen signed up so many other food exhibitors that Heinz was finally glad to accept half of another, more prosaic building...
...they carry on a tradition, the beginnings of which are not far behind us. In the hands of the great majority of contemporary artists, the cubism of Cezanne, the effective grotesqueness of Van Gogh, and the myriad contributions of other men too numerous to mention, have taken on a prosaic and domestic dullness. A tradition, in order to thrive, must be continued in the spirit of its originators. Stevens and Jones, together with others whose paintings are on exhibit, are among those painting today who are suited to seize the baton from the hands of their predecessors and continue along...
While the nation pondered these prosaic devices to protect it from disaster brewing abroad, up popped a trial balloon for a scheme far from prosaic. The balloonist: William Stix Wasserman, a big, self-assured Philadelphian...
...veil of popular adulation to portray the man as he really is, H. Gordon Garbedian, a science editor of the New York Times, has essayed in the first published biography of the life of this great mathematical genius. With a sweeping imagination which, although it tends to overdramatize prosaic details, never fails to sustain the reader's interest, the author unfolds an absorbing tale of a courageous fighter whose entire youth was a bitter battle against poverty and racial prejudice...