Word: laboredness
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Over the cobblestones of Chestnut Street the carriages rolled to the Old State House (Independence Hall). Day after day thereafter the sages, the patriots, the thoughtful men of the Colonial States gathered, debated, voted, reconsidered, revised, labored mightily, always in the light of Ben Franklin's wise words. . . . "We...
Drain Pipes, Pie Plates. Next night, in the stadium of St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y., officers of both armies sat down to hear Hugh Drum. Most glaring deficiency of the maneuvers the First Army commander passed over in one sentence. The point was too well known, even to...
"All beauty that has not a foundation in use, soon grows distasteful, and needs continual replacement with something else." This maxim would sound serviceable to most modern designers of functional furniture. It was devised by devout, unlettered members of the communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the...
The unification of the American Republics against totalitarian political and economic penetration would have been a big diplomatic feat in any period. It was doubly impressive in view of traditional Latin-American fear of "Yankee imperialism," that Communists and Nazis labored desperately to keep alive. Agreement on the fate of...
Determined to get their $20 worth, the students labored hard and soberly. Sole disrupting note to younger bankers was having to watch still younger Chapel Hill bucks squiring their coeds toward the nearby hills for afternoon strolls.