Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan and Owen D. Young would represent the U.S. in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28). By way of humble return for so great a bounty, the Herald Tribune was the only paper to print, on its first page and in full, the following Monday morning, a prolix and tedious address by Mr. Young at a Manhattan church on Sunday night. Last week the Herald Tribune, unsuspicious, printed the Associated Press scoop, correcting it next day with an exclusive despatch from the very fountain head of second Dawes Committee sure-dope...
...London's aristocratic Savoy Hotel the Egg Song was played several times, last week, "by special request"; and in common music halls many a tedious comedian reaped undeserved applause by concluding his number with "Eggs! Eggs! Eggs...
...Foster '01, director of the Pollock Foundation for Economic Research, emphasized the significance of the teacher's role in the development of youths who are to be successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution...
...representative men. The ideas are not presented with as much persuasiveness as might be wished. Outstanding is the annoying fault of unnecessary repetition of phrases and explanations, as for example the constant definition of mana and miasma, which in the 538 pages of the book makes the reading frequently tedious. All the way through, there is a curious uncertainty on the part of the author in sensing what the reader knows and what needs explanation, so if the book had not been tested on an audience for timings and proportions. But with judicious skimming these shortcomings can be obviated...
...trained in physics or chemistry may go into production work and some of the similar companies where less technical training is required, as for example, manufacturing of furniture or sand paper. Many men learn the process without an engineering background. In general, however, the way is long and tedious, and the very things which make for success in other fields are not so important when dealing with the various phases of production work...