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Word: boredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The mass of undergraduates are uninterested in a debate; if it is conducted under the iron-bound conventions that characterize the old "American" system the audience is bored; and if it is conducted under the so-called Oxford system, the audience is restless.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Future of Debate | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

If you liked "No, No, Nanette," there isn't much point in seeing The "Queen High" imitation of it. The music can be had on phonograph records, and the wise cracks, though funny in their setting, aren't pointed enough to repeat at Christmas parties. If you didn't like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

At this moment-any moment-a man, woman or child is almost certainly being torn to pieces and gulped down by one or more wild animals in Asia. Accurate statistics are available only for India. Last week a bored clerk at the Colonial Office released the news that wild animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blood | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

With a tooth in the air, and 110,000 (the biggest crowd that ever saw a U. S. football game) in the stands, the Navy met the Army in Chicago. The Navy goat had a room and bath at the Drake hotel- but where was the mule? Running, passing, kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

George might chat concerning the aces or Bond Street styles--but would Calvin be interested? Calvin, on the other hand, could discourse with some use and a great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPERATOR, OPERATOR | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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