Word: tediousness
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...seldom does the general public realize the tedious preliminaries which lie behind extended exploration. In this case over a year was spent in careful planning and equipment was sent to the cast from London six months ahead. Personnel is another perplexing problem and Mr. Coolidge deserves praise for handling pugnacious gun-bearors and sly Laotian hunters who tried to cheat him by selling him pheasants they had shot while in his employ. This book should be of local interest not only because its authors are both Harvard men but because Mr. Coolidge's zoological training resulted in part from...
...swapping small talk about the subject through smoke rings while sitting in an easy chair before a log fire. Much--perhaps the most important part--of the work in the field is that done in direct contact with the chemicals and apparatus, and that work is often slow and tedious...
...visit it will find almost always that, except for an attendant, he is quite alone, and for good reason. Very few of the volumes dumped into the Poetry Room are worth the trouble of reading, and those which are, most often will be found only after a tedious search. There is no catalogue system in use, and the small size of most of the volumes makes them particularly difficult to detect. An its inaccessibility is of course, a contributing factor in the unpopularity of the Room...
...Gimbel and Saks stores in Manhattan and department stores in Pittsburgh. Philadelphia, Milwaukee. William Howard, who resigned as Macy's advertising manager to go in the proposed new Collins agency, will go with him to Gimbel's as his assistant.* Possibly to celebrate but probably to avoid answering tedious questions both Mr. Collins & Mr. Howard promptly sailed for Bermuda after the announcement, will remain there until after New Year's. Mr. Collins had his private telephone number changed. On the day of his departure not even his new employers could get in touch with...
...officials announced that if Miss Didrikson could prove, by suing the advertisers for causing her to lose her amateur standing, that she had not been paid for the testimonial, she would be reinstated. While pondering this nice point in an argument which invariably reduces itself to tedious hairsplitting. Miss Didrikson must also have wondered what A. A. U. officials would have to say about a Grantland Rice "Sportlight" cinema called Wonder Girl, to be released next month. In Wonder Girl, Wonder Girl Didrikson high-jumps, broad-jumps, hurdles, puts the shot, throws the javelin and discus, dives, swims, plays baseball...