Word: tediousness
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Flying over the newly inaugurated "ER Express" Air Route from Cincinnati to Louisville, was not a very tedious trip, as is the same journey...
...aide, Major Desmazes who arrived briskly at the Mint last week, with several bearded senators. A blast furnace intended for melting silver was started, and into it workmen shoveled paper which had once been valued at the par equivalent of $4,000,000. The blazing heat and tedious length of this ceremony were deemed by physicians unsuitable to the health of massive Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre, aged...
Hans Pastoy becomes meditative and sympathetic. He comes to respect death. The approach is thoroughly naturalistic and pages are filled with physiological explanations. They are very illuminating but are carried to such extremes that in the end they become tedious and sometimes are in bad taste, even silly: "Something warm and tender clasped him round the back of his neck; melted with desire and awe, he laid his hands upon the flesh of her upper arms., where the fine-grained skin over the bicepts came to his sense so heavenly cool; and upon his lips he felt the moist clinging...
...that may make briefer the ten years now usually required to teach a person hard of hearing* to talk properly. The hard of hearing can easily imitate a normal person's talking lips, jaws and throat movements. But to imitate a talker's moving vocal cords requires tedious years of practice. Even after learning to talk properly the hard of hearing frequently forget to make their vocal cords work. Their lips move; they make no sound...
...race is not always to the swift", in all truth; nor is it to the co-educationally stunted mentality. All praise to them who race their tedious way to glory on Brattle. There is no need for a medley relay...