Word: tediousness
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There were approximately 35,000 people in the huge dark horseshoe of Cleveland's new Municipal Stadium when the fighters, almost unnoticed, got into the ring. In the first rounds, Stribling seemed to have deserted his customary and tedious method of embracing an opponent and pushing him around the ring. He tried to hit Schmeling with left jabs and hard rights to the face. He succeeded frequently. Schmeling kept coming in, grinned ostentatiously whenever hit, swung his short hard right at Stribling's head and body...
...holystone has been used since the Government first built ships. Formerly applied by seamen on hands and knees, holystoning is now performed with long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied by hand. Petty officers sentenced flip seamen to this tedious work as a disciplinary measure. But last week the holystone passed out of U. S. Naval tradition. The new 10,000-ton treaty cruisers are being built as lightly as possible to carry the heaviest possible armament. Even the aluminum beams are whittled away wherever safety permits. The decks, made...
...have convincingly proved that there is no adequate defense against attack from above. Aside from that, the psychology of the demonstration can have only the worst effects. Such shows of militarism are among the greatest existent creators of false patriotism and war-mindedness; in a few months, years of tedious labor by conferences and Leagues of Nations can be nullified. Never will there be a "war to end war", while nations devote their hours of peace to planning and exhibiting newer and more potent instruments of death...
...conduct of Foreign Affairs is neither so brilliant and romantic as the writers of fiction and the producers at Hollywood would make it, nor so tedious and dry as the memoirs of statesmen, with their concomitant quotations of dull documents, might lead you to believe. It is a career with a constant heavy routine and something of the emergency quality of the physician's profession, since no one can know when the ills that the body politic is heir to will break forth, and when the outbreaks occur, first aid is always sought of the diplomatic representatives. No Secretary...
...empties into Long Island Sound, he found the spats settling only at low tide. That is when the salt sound water is most diluted by the fresh river water. Something in the river water evidently makes the very young oysters want to nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also iron, magnesium) makes oysters a fine blood-builder...