Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GIVE Us THIS DAY-Louis Zara-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The rise and decline of a baker, told in vague, groping, pseudo-epic style. Tedious reading, relieved occasionally by an unintentionally comic passage...
...hundreds of U. S. college students, the Reserve Officers Training Corps, compulsory in most land grant colleges, means the preparation of young men for death on a battlefield. For thousands more, the R. O. T. C. means an itchy uniform, tedious target practice, tiresome drills. Whether through idealism or indolence, opponents of the R. O. T. C. last week made trouble on both coasts...
Many a Princeton undergraduate was mystified one morning last fortnight when he read this manifesto in the Daily Princetonian. Members of Terrace Club, upper-class eating sodality, were not so puzzled. The dank midwinter in semi-isolated Princeton is a tedious time. Between long games of Monopoly and billiards and work on an honors thesis about Machiavelli, Senior Lewis Jefferson Gorin, a small, grave Terrace member, had fallen to brooding about the way his elders and betters run the world. In the midst of these reveries, Congress had voted to cash the soldiers' Bonus in full ten years before...
...this tedious business of trying to observe Lent as a long drawn-out season of six weeks were discarded; if most of the parish schedules of daily services were thrown in the waste basket; if the little half-baked priestlets who want...
...clock every morning except Sunday a herd of scholars scampers hastily up the steps of Widener Library, swishes through the turnstiles, rounds the marble stairways in stride, and finally deposits an overnight book on the Reading Room desk. The return journey is completed with equal haste, minus a few tedious and precious minutes while the unsmiling book inspector carefully Philo Vances every brief case, lawyers bag, and simple booksatchel. Such expenditure of energy and valuable pre-nine-o'clock time is not only highly inconvenient but unnecessary...