Word: tediousness
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...spent an adult life not only emotionally but physiologically on the verge of manhood, was in fact-and law-a man. "I have been a man biologically and socially for several months, leading a bach elor's life and discarding the last remnants of the tedious upbringing as a girl," he said. By an upland salmon stream, the heir to the family baronetcy (but not the barony), Rear Admiral Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill, 74, considered his new status. "As uncle of the present peer. I succeed," he told a reporter. "According to Scottish law, a girl...
...secret), chemical operators pour 1,500 lbs. of glistening white crystalline bile acid ($37,500 worth at quoted prices) into a 1,000-gallon still. In the still are hundreds of gallons of a solvent liquid with which the bile acid goes through its first reaction in its long, tedious process toward cortisone. Within hours this reaction is complete and a precipitant is added, causing Intermediate Compound No. 1 to separate from the solution as a white powder...
Unfortunately, .says Professor Thomas Pyles of the University of Florida, the average educated American has mastered the rules of grammar, and his speech is "frequently dry, dull, tedious, overprecise . . ." In a new book called Words and Ways of American English (Random House; $3.50), Pyles argues that American speech is much too prissy. It long ago shunned the rough & tumble language of the farm, and it also discarded the "careless elegance" of the 18th century drawing room. Instead it adopted "the tortured precision prescribed by the grammarians who served as arbiters of language for the 'new men' created...
...second feature at the Met, Anything Can Happen, is also supposed to be an "A" film. It isn't. Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It relies heavily on pidgin English for its humor and Horatio Alger for its plot, and the net result shows that a cliche, even in dialect, is still a cliche...
...boys (seven to eleven years in age) matched, case for case, with 500 non-delinquents living in the Boston area. Each delinquent was matched with a non-delinquent by age, family background, general intelligence, ethnic derivation, and residence in an under-privileged neighborhood. This alone was a long and tedious process...