Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Salome's time, many a man has lost his head over a pretty pair of legs and a smile. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that Columbia oarsmen have turned to the ballet during the tedious winter months. Tank rowing is said to be a terrible grind. And who is better qualified to develop rhythm and form than a Ziegfeld beauty...
...study the forward marches of science and their effect of steadily shrinking the world to what will ultimately become a single, big community of fellow humans, we must admit the growing necessity for the development of a universal language. Until this new process is worked out in its tedious way and accepted by the nations of the world, photoradiograms, which speak the truly universal language of pictures, will go far to bridge the gap that different latitudes and tongues have interposed between the peoples of this sphere on which we live...
...operate must find revenue elsewhere. For the next few years, back-taxes are a very material part of the Government's receipts. During the last fiscal year they probably ran as high as $400,000,000. . . You should not permit yourselves to be lost in involved and tedious law suits. Make yourselves an administrative body to settle taxes. Give speedy decisions. To delay is to deny justice−both to the Government and the taxpayer...
Figures are dry and tedious but a brave body-the National Bureau of Economic Research-plunged into calculations and came out with a result-somewhat postdated, to be sure, but nevertheless a result. It found that the population of the U. S. (increased in this country by reason of considerable immigration and an unusually low death rate) had jumped by Jan. 1, 1924, to 112,826,000 people. During the last half of 1923 the increase of population was especially large...
...that is necessary in order to immortalize a person, a locality, or even an inanimate object, is to have some near great poet commemorate its existence in deathless verse. At once tables are erected, little fences constructed, and the lives of prominent visitors made tedious with tours of inspection, personally conducted by a legal and enthusiastic peasantry. Unfortunately; however, human nature is of so frail a cast that when a poet has exercised his skill on behalf of some deserving object. Impostures are promptly brought into being by envious souls yearning for similar redirected glory, who also erect tablets, construct...