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Word: tedious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brilliancy. The ladies of to-day have not degenerated from that standard. The essay, besides being of easy diction, shows much sympathy with the subject of it and some critical acumen. Next comes a very happy account of "The Big Bharata" by Mr. Bruce. He has made the tedious agreeable, and compressed eighty thousand lines into a sentence; indeed, with the exception of his "Catullus" of last year, we do not remember any critical article of his that is better He tells us among other things that by an intricate method of skipping, the "Bharata" may be read in ninety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Harvard Monthly." | 6/24/1887 | See Source »

...yesterday afternoon served to frighten away all but a mere handful of spectators from the second game between the Beacons and the 'Varsity nine. Those who braved the chances of catching a wetting wished that they had staid at home, for the game, after dragging along through nine tedious innings, resulted in a defeat for the home team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 6/22/1887 | See Source »

...game on the whole, was tedious, and the only redeeming features were the occasional streaks of heavy batting, and the brilliant work of Wiestling. The regular umpire was relieved by the change umpire at the end of the fifth inning, and it is safe to say that both gave general and complete satisfaction. The score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball. | 6/22/1887 | See Source »

...make a digest of the volume would be tedious, for in it only a summary of statistics could be given, and most unsatisfactorily, for speeches such as those eminent graduates delivered at the various dinners do not bear condensing, while every student is acquainted with the undergraduate parts and the CRIMSON - for facts, such as the boat race of the undergraduate day - the authority of the book, has already made the readers of this familiar with much retold in this volume. The frontispiece is a facsimile of the earliest existing record of the college - ; another facsimile; a photogravure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Commemoration Book. | 6/6/1887 | See Source »

...course, and making the water lumpy, and for a little while it seemed to grow worse instead of mending. At the starting place the mill-dam was thronged with buggies loaded with spectators, which set off Bostonward the moment the race started. The wait at the bridge was exceedingly tedious, the cold wind dampening the ardor of the most excited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Races. | 5/14/1887 | See Source »

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