Word: tediousness
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...those days it was thought cheapest and most convenient to have teams meet on a common, unchanging battle ground at Springfield. The modern generation likes to be told of the glory of the old series: the tedious stage coach trip to Springfield, the meagre stands, the disorganized cheering, the "flying wedge", "guards back", the moustached heroes Trafford, Waters, Lake, Morrison, Heffelfinger (that very archfiend of Harvard's followers), and above all the unbelievable goryness of those grim struggles...
These are among the last of the "tedious but popular" hexameters of Evangeline, written by Poet Longfellow...
...will continue to train during the winter with a series of squash tournaments and basketball games among members of the crew squad. By these sports Coach Stevens hopes to keep up the spirit of competition among the men. The tedious work on the machines and in setting up exercises will be resorted to as little as possible...
...Field. The Significance. An interesting and amusing book, readable, vivid and unashamedly flavored with the author's own personality-though with a tendency to lapse into a rather mechanical cleverness. Sometimes the nifties come a little too fast, and Judith is, for the most part, a tedious nuisance, in spite of the obvious care lavished upon her. But Tiny and George are convincing throughout. A good novel-better than most-even if neither Judith nor the author have yet discovered, apparently, that radical preachiness can be just as dull as any other brand...
...York Times: "The author . . . demonstrates a fondness for split infinitives. . . . Mr. Van Vechten ought to be able to give us a very much better novel than this rather tedious...