Word: tediously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character so much as to make them comprehensible, balancing them against each other and putting them in their complex historical perspectives. This sounds unexciting-and it is. Scarisbrick's study is no swashbuckler, but a sober, patient amassing of significant details. For the nonspecialist it becomes tedious at times, as when Scarisbrick expounds canon law or traces a dense web of diplomatic maneuvering; but in the end it adds up to a monumental mosaic that has all the quiet authority of first-rate scholarship...
...read with aversion the sanctimonious protestations of the present leaders of the Grand Old Party who raise cries of "cronyism" over L.B.J.'s nominees to the Supreme Court [July 5]. The tedious process and soul-searching which L.B.J. went through in making his choices was apparent by your article. He has selected qualified men of the judiciary with obvious credentials, whose records are an open book...
Besides giving instruction, computers may soon be used by graduate students as scratch pads. Working on a teletype a student could climinate hours of tedious hand calculations...
...even be programmed to shake hands. Presumably it could be set up to shake hands to say goodbye to the people it replaces." Yet in many cases, the people the robots replace are glad. Caterpillar Tractor Co. uses a Unimation-made robot to feed steel pins into furnaces, a tedious task that workmen heretofore had to perform with long-handled tongs. "The work is hot and repetitive," says a Caterpillar spokesman. "For the worker, it was just not desirable." For the robot, it's just...
...maybe three-fourths of those who pay their $35 and spend an hour a day meditating are content--and often ecstatic--over the happenings. But there remains the growing number who don't find enough in meditation to continue it. One student admits that "For me, the process is tedious, and I got no response. I think meditation is a sporadic thing, anyway. The meditators I know drift in and out, go back to pot, and then try to combine...