Word: dull
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reported daily, and the work lasted from September to November. The stress of the practice was put into rounding out two boats which should be well drilled in both unity and detail. The spring season could then begin with a long lead over what would otherwise have been a dull monotony of rudimentary work. At the end of the fall two well developed crews finished the practice and remained over the intervening months so that the same men were there to start with at the beginning of the final stretch...
...stupid. There is very little romance in carting wounded men from a railway station to the hospital; however, one squad has carried over 9,500 sick and wounded during a period of three months. War being the uncertain game that it is, the work of the ambulances may mean dull and uninteresting days at a railway station; or even days under fire. At the present moment one squad is in Belgium doing the work of the military ambulances which takes them under fire every day. But the question of where one is located will not be considered by those...
...Songs, F. H. Cabot, J. C. McMullin: Probation Rag" and "Its a dull way to Prohibition...
...first spring football practice scarcely enough men for two teams appeared on the field. This is a deplorable state of affairs, since this year of all years the prospects for a championship team are very dull. We can leave no stone unturned this year, all details must be attended to. There is now no reason in the world for a feeling of over-confidence or indifference toward football...
...Class Day ceremonies in the Stadium seem to me to be singularly monotonous and inconclusive. Except for a more or less witty Ivy Oration and the very pretty slinging of streamers and confetti there is nothing but a dull series of cheers. Since this occasion is largely a reunion of graduates, and since even among undergraduates only a part of the Freshmen are not supposed to have seen it before, could not some scheme be devised by which this ceremony could be made more entertaining to all present? I submit this to the serious consideration of the 1915 Committee...