Word: boringly
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...much this outdated method of calculating horsepower for taxation purposes has cost the British nation in lost export trade it would be impossible even to estimate! Designers are still obliged to keep the bore-stroke ratio disproportionate for economic results. The American manufacturer has benefited enormously by our persistent folly and is able to produce his vehicles considerably cheaper by the adoption of a shorter stroke and larger bore...
...father's small soap factory at Chatham he, aged 18, migrated to Detroit, became car-checker, then bill-clerk for the M. C. R. R. A. Y. Malcomsen, coaldealer, made him his bookkeeper at $75 a month. He married Margaret A. Manning of Detroit in 1898, who bore him one son, three daughters...
...support of the Old Guard, Candidate Draper of the Young Guard. The total Wet Republican vote in the state was some 15,000 more than that by which Nominee Butler won. Without difficulty was Republican Governor Frank Gilman Allen renominated just a few hours before his wife bore him a daughter...
When the Vagabond was an undergraduate, if he ever was one, first meetings of courses frightened him to death. Now they merely bore him. So until the headliners of the Faculty have warmed over the dishes they are planned to serve, he will have to look around for other matitutinal diversion. For he is gradually learning to sleep nights in his pent-house room in Lowell House, although reflections on the tower above his head did bother him at first...
...standard treatments for leprosy has been to inject ethyl-esters of chaulmoogra oil into a muscle with a large bore syringe. This has been painful...