Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four tedious days spent in selecting a jury resolved themselves into a tussle of West against East, of Lawyer Darrow against Prosecutor John Kelley. Mr. Darrow, whose 75 years and frail health cut the daily court sessions short, weeded Hawaiians, Japanese and Chinese out of the jury as often as he could with peremptory challenges. Other Orientals disqualified themselves when they exclaimed that the four defendants "ought to be shot." Broad, Irish-looking Prosecutor Kelley, though essentially fair in his tactics, dismissed ten whites from service. The final mottled jury, composed of three Chinese, a Hawaiian, a Portuguese, a German...
There can be little argument that American governments are sadly riddled with corruption; that fact, and the tedious apprenticeship and small remuneration have militated against the entrance of college men into politics. Nearly every organ of opinion has tended to emphasize these more repugnant facts without pointing out that any future betterment must depend entirely on the energies of honest, capable men. Those, therefore who are eminently fitted through training, ability, and character to elevate politics from their rut are discouraged at every turn. There is little honor due the person who cries over spilt milk while holding...
...perfumes of Arabia, who gives the second, concluding Magnolia Street party, which brings Jews and gentiles together again. By this time, in spite of Author Golding's sincere and humane labors, the reader is likely to be wishing both Jews and gentiles either dead or living without such tedious detail...
...authors complain about the tedious slowness with which their books are printed. Catalogues and other routine work, occupying about a fourth of the yearly output of the presses, delay the publication of more important books. The proof readers of the Press are often inaccurate and a large burden of the work falls upon the writer. Because the cost of printing is unconscionably high, remuneration to the author is small or altogether lacking. Moreover the type of the books is often redistributed after a small edition is published, before there is time to discover whether demand warrants reprints...
...bite into. The life of the Stevens family along the railroad embankment showed little to brag of. Mr. Stevens was a poorly paid clerk; Dick and Mary worked out; Mrs. Stevens kept house; young Ernie kept it lively. They could afford few pleasures; they were fed up with tedious work; they took little interest in the out-side world, but-they took their holiday...