Word: tedium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ramming nonsense down the throats of unwilling undergraduates must be a dull business for instructors, particularly in the lower reaches of the academic world. One of the rare pleasures which relieve the tedium for them is to bustle importantly into an examination, strip the wrapping from the examination papers, and view for the first time in print those mighty cerebral efforts which are to be the nemesis of the class. Then suddenly half way through the test it will be discovered that question 2a is all wrong; a correction will be announced and question 2a will be rewritten with muted...
...emergency employment appropriation could be diverted to gifts and loans to needy applicants after the really useful and suitable work had been distributed; those whose budgets required assistance beyond their share of the appropriation, and who were securing it by employment elsewhere, might well be relieved of the extended tedium of the emergency jobs...
Herr Goebbels, the Nazi minister for propaganda, has not been insensible to the possibilities of this situation. It has been his pleasant fancy to picture von Hindenburg as remarking at reviews of the German army that the Russian prisoners had indeed a military bearing, and as beguiling the tedium of his leisure hours with the games of the asylum. This may well be so. But, lacking as we must evidence of any positive nature, there seems more point to the view that von Hindenburg's collapse has been gradual, and is not yet consummate. There is certainly more hope...
...Author. Writing funny stories is not all sherry and biscuits to Pelham ("Plum") Grenville Wodehouse, 51. He started it as a release from the tedium of a high stool in the Bank of England where his father's sudden retirement landed him instead of in Oxford. His scribbling soon persuaded the head clerk ("dark...
...always make a defeated part seem humorous due to the basic fact that he is about half as large as the rest of the members of the cast. Nevertheless Best Sellers, seldom as farcical as its hard-working actors try to make you believe, is fraught with polite tedium...