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  • n  the quality of requiring extended effort

  • Most of the mural-size "wall drawings" on display are fairly inert; their main characteristic is a sort of soothing, high-minded laboriousness that stands in for energy of .
  • In scholarly capacity, one might rate our faculty at about 75%; in willing laboriousness at 90%; in successfully awakening independent intellectual interest in pupils, at 70%.
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  • Joe Appiah in Joy Online
    In the opposition response to the debate on Granville Sharp Commission report, Mr. Joe Appiah described Mr. Amponsah as "a person who was anxious to risk being imprisoned with all the laboriousness involved."

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