Word: boredome
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...presented pretty tough going for the local elite and even for the President and Fellows, for it dealt almost exclusively with fossil cycads (in which the Prince, like Dr. Wieland, had an ardent interest). The guests could hardly wait for the end of the luncheon and the end of boredom to edge closer to the Royal Presence. But no - when it was over the Prince suggested visiting Dr. Wieland's office. This suggestion alarmed Professor George Eaton and he hurriedly sneaked on ahead to see what could be done about achieving some kind of order out of the monumental...
With the last months of 1936, I thought I felt boredom creeping into my former unrefined enjoyment. Your stodgy treatment of the Woman of the Year made boredom too mild a word for what I felt...
TIME, never more full of good blood, shudders at the thought of death. Do other readers agree that since late 1936, boredom has crept in? If so, please give counsel...
...Pontefract and some of the other important characters are well-delineated. This much is to be expected, for Mary Borden and her husband, Brigadier-General E. L. Spears, move in circles similar to those she describes, with officers living beyond their means and trying to counter-balance the everyday boredom of peacetime military existence by gambling for high stakes and similar diversions...
From the moment the new regulation was published at the opening of the term opposition to it appeared from every quarter. A petition circulated throughout the Houses was signed by 878 undergraduates, and any one familiar with the boredom with which petitions have heretofore been greeted at Harvard realizes the unanimity of student opinion expressed...