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Word: boredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Freshman is merely bored, the Sophomore is bored but striving for originality, the Junior is distinctly not bored, but suffering from a species of nightmare--the dark before the dawn. At last the Sleeper awakens and substituting the lambskin for the pigskin goes forth to see what he may...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIRTH OF IMAGINATION | 10/10/1922 | See Source »

Harvard men have the reputation of being silent. Silent that is, when they are in a group not composed of their own friends or classmates; and this same silence has often been attributed to snobbishness or worse. But as a matter of fact, when a man does not talk, it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HAVE YOUR HEARD THIS ONE?" | 9/29/1922 | See Source »

None of these conditions is inevitable. To be bored--or to assume boredom--is merely putting an insult upon your own intelligence in picking your company; the other two are merely the result of inexcusable mental laziness.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HAVE YOUR HEARD THIS ONE?" | 9/29/1922 | See Source »

Germany, like "The Varmint", will never allow its neighbors to become bored. Not content with assuming the financial obligations of half the world, the Germans have decided to dig a little deeper into their pockets and their Fatherland. Having stumbled on an odd billion or so (marks not dollars), they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIGH TIDE IN THE ALPS | 1/4/1922 | See Source »

If the Glee Club sees fit to leave behind it a "trail of disappointed audiences," who came expecting to spend an enjoyable evening and were bored in the extreme, I fail to see just why it has attained a higher or nobler end than one which gives to the audiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/4/1921 | See Source »

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