Word: tediousness
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Usually the investigative process is long, but rarely tedious. Dr. Ford and his colleagues, members of the only such department in the country, are pioneers. There is no established precedent to follow, and their methods must be their...
Focal point of the mythical "decline" of Harvard athletics has been the nation-wide tendency to judge a college's entire athletic picture by the record of its football team. Football coach Lloyd Jordan, formerly of Amherst, took this department over a year ago and launched into the tedious process of building for the future--trying to shape a team that can compete on the same level with its traditional opponents...
...Delaware's Governor Elbert Carvel was waiting at Pigeon Point, just below Wilmington on the Delaware side. After appropriate speeches and snipping of ribbons, the long lines of waiting trucks and cars started across the $44 million span. Within 24 hours, 20,000 paid toll to bypass the tedious old New Castle-Pennsville ferry; they saved an average two hours on the Jersey route between New York and points south...
...Reimann does not pretend to know what causes periodic disease, but he believes it is a good thing to have the puzzling facts known: if periodic disease is recognized, victims may be spared useless operations (such as appendectomies) and tedious treatments to no purpose...
...Fascist informer by a partisan in broad daylight-read as though they had been planned as paintings, full of sensuous color and clear visual images. Here & there, The Watch has patches of writing as good as anything in Eboli. But its pace is slowed by irrelevant incidents and by tedious, pointless speeches on Italian politics. Few books have so sorely needed a firm editor...