Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusade which reopened the reeking Teapot Dome scandal. Paul Anderson began to think increasingly of late that his endless exploits had also earned him an independence no other Washington correspondent enjoys. The disciplinarian Post-Dispatch disagreed, so the result of his frequent protracted absences was inevitable, though long delayed. Tedious hours of poring over the finely printed technical briefs in the Madison, Wis. oil case overtaxed Paul Anderson's eyes last week, he said, and he had to remain in a dark room three days. Post-Dispatch Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard phoned from St. Louis several...
...Lincoln Tunnel has another usefulness. Until last week, through traffic on U. S. No. 1 had the choice of using tedious ferries, the George Washington Bridge or the Holland Tunnel. The Holland Tunnel route is not so speedy as the bridge route. It will now be even quicker to use the East Side express highway & the Lincoln Tunnel than to use the bridge & U. S. No. 1 on the Jersey side. This may take some revenue away from the Holland Tunnel and the bridge, only completed in 1931. but the Port of New York Authority runs them all. is competing...
After his death in 1901, a brief, old-fashioned travel diary was found among Bishop Whipple's papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail...
Months of conferences held by the Bureau of Air Commerce with military officials, airline operators, private flyers, airport operators and experts made a tedious job of the revision of hundreds of rules. Under the Federal law which provides that all regulations must be published immediately in the Federal register, the new air rules must, of necessity, appear piecemeal, while proofreading is progressing on a complete separate booklet of air commerce regulations. The rules effective this week cover eleven chapters dealing with rating of pilots, instructors, mechanics, equipment, repairs and general operating...
...diligent digging he gets out a fair amount, though most readers may fee! that his results are too pat and his method too tedious to make first-class reading. All the principal characters are treated to full-length portraits, their past histories recounted from birth, their separate thoughts, reactions and activities traced conscientiously through all the tangle of events. This leads to a great deal of harking-back at the beginning of the book, and to a scattering of dramatic effect thereafter, so that even the impact of the earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters...