Search Details

Word: boringly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...into the gullet is Dr. Jackson's esophagoscope. At the tip of esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body or diseased tissue of windpipe, bronchi or gullet. By means of slim, skillfully jointed tools which fit the bore of the metal tube, the bronchoscopist can usually catch hold of and pull out foreign bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bronchoscopist | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Plans were being made to formulate a Harvard chapter of the Liberty League until it was found that the leaders in the affair had intended only to satirize the whole affair and bore from within. University officials clamped down when it was realized that the affair was taking such a direction and refused to grant a charter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Liberty League | 5/26/1936 | See Source »

...order that is, and now writes a column for the Boston Evening American. He was to go beyond the teachings of his liberal mentor Lincoln Steffens and to stop writing to his beloved Charles Townsend Copeland because correspondence with a radical was dangerous business in the war years. He bore the seeds of a conviction and as that conviction grew it crowded friendships, pleasures and privileges that were incompatible with it out of his mind. The story of his thirty-three years is precisely what Hicks calls it--the story of "The Making of a Revolutionary...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/26/1936 | See Source »

...knowing who came first, the court threw out the case. Rudy Vallee waxed more famous, and Will Osborn, who sounded like him, bore in silence the onus of an imitator. But Will has left St. Andrews College (in his native Toronto) to become an orchestra leader of note. He worked incessantly on special trombone effects, relied less on his voice. A year ago dancers began to notice that Will Osborne had a sweet swing to his playing. Today Rudy Vallee is known chiefly for his radio variety hour will Osborne is known for his band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Sweet Swing" | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

...pitching staff, though not always as steady as might be desired was usually able to cope with all opponents. Slim Curtise bore the burden of the hurling, gaining nine victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated Freshman Baseball Team Piled Up Unique Record in Harvard's Athletic History | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

First | Previous | 778 | 779 | 780 | 781 | 782 | 783 | 784 | 785 | 786 | 787 | 788 | 789 | 790 | 791 | 792 | 793 | 794 | 795 | 796 | 797 | 798 | Next | Last