Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seaway's troubles stem from a combination of engineering shortcomings and poor financial planning. For one thing, the Seaway is too shallow to accommodate large freighters. Most of its ports are ill-equipped to load and unload ships, and passage through the 15 sets of locks is tedious and slow; the average ship takes ten days to travel from Chicago to Montreal. Because the waterways freeze over for four months each winter, shippers cannot rely on year-round use. Finally, tolls make shipping by water almost as expensive as land transportation. The project's backers are now debating...
...lecture system as a means of conveying information is a tedious anachronism made finally obsolete by the invention of paperback books. In most cases (with the major exception of some natural sciences courses), time spent in lectures is a waste both for the instructor and the student. Mimeographed transcripts of lectures--which rarely change anyway--would give the student more information in less time. It would be foolish, of course, to dispense entirely with lectures, as some professors are superb showmen with clear inspirational value. But by making lectures one of the College's major contributions to formal education...
...Polly Bergen. The newlyweds have no sooner departed for a honeymoon in Monterey than out of a Navy sub hops this cute freckled blonde wearing blue denims and a sailor hat. "You're not too late!" screeches Doris' mother-in-law, Thelma Ritter. Then begins an unmercifully tedious rescue operation to keep Bergen and Garner from consummating their marriage...
Automation came to the law last week. A computer is now ready to take over the lawyer's plodding and tedious search through vast and ever-expanding archives to track down rulings that apply to the case at hand...
...emissary abroad, thus is likely to ask Rusk to do so. Even so, Rusk is no more likely to change his way of doing things than Johnson is to drop his drawl. He will be meticulous, even somewhat plodding when necessary. "It can be a tedious job no matter how glamorous it looks," he says. "We don't deal with great issues as drama. We deal with them by quiet, persistent, repetitive effort. If we can make a quiet contribution to the settlement of a dispute, O.K. And if we don't get any credit...