Word: tediousness
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Late-lingering winter in upstate New York kept Cornell's thin-sided racing shells in the boathouse longer than Coach Harrison Sanford would have liked; it takes a long and tedious spring to work a crew into shape for the long and tedious sweep-swinging season. So the Big Red got off to a slow start. On the Severn in April, they lost to Navy; on the Potomac in May, and even on the home waters of Lake Cayuga four weeks later, Cornell's varsity eight came home second, behind the powerful Quakers from the University of Pennsylvania...
...beau Wellington," she found tedious, goodhearted, generous. But when the duke spurned her dun ("Publish and be damned"), he too met a different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house...
...thoughts, is a far greater undertaking. When her characters talk, Miss Sarton can invent the right phrases and do it well, for she has a poet's feeling for language. But when her creations must think, she relapses to one view, the Julia Phillips' outlook, and the result is tedious and unconvincing...
...three-hour sessions over blue books in sultry classrooms. Although the examination itself is a necessary evil in the large university, its procedure here seems to be the University's unique anachronism in the Machine Age. The Administration has repeatedly resisted any attempts to make exam-taking less tedious by allowing skilled students to type their examinations in special rooms...
...future as it had given the past--designed by M.I.T. men and sold by Yalies, and for awhile the audience couldn't get enough of it. The figures about compression ratios were just as dazzling to those who didn't understand them. But the statistical inspiration finally got tedious, and no one was sorry to see the General Motors Philharmonic take their seats in the 13-foot high choir loft to begin the G.M. Broadway revue called, "Looking...