Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson first year men were slightly off their game. The first period was slow and tedious. There was no unison in the forward line, the defence was poor, and Flood had more than his share of work in guarding the goal...
John Corbin: "Matrimony has never seemed quite so tedious...
...marriage as a comprehensive study. He may be married in one state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal of the villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser evinces internal retching and active nausea, the villain is spewed several hundred feet in the air) provides a grotesque conclusion. One gathers that Mr. Hughes favors either a national code...
Practically all the gentlemen who sign these annual opinions (most of them are actually written by professional publicity men) mainly desire to appear cheerful, resolute and yet noncommittal. As literature, the reports are colorless and a trifle tedious as a rule; as prophecy, often ludicrous...
Reports that are tedious and often ludicrous...