Word: dull
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...extending only until the April recess, more candidates must report at once, in order that the team may make any sort of showing in the games scheduled in the near future. No previous experience is necessary, and the game provides an excellent opportunity for exercise and sport at a dull season of the year. Numerals will be awarded the team at the end of the season...
...harmonies and unusual or complicated progressions. But therein, as the composer knows, the separate chords may not be dissonances; on the contrary, they must be capable of strict analysis, otherwise they cease to be music. Neither must progressions by too ambiguous on penalty of the effect being flat and dull. Mr. Spelman's notions of dissonance need revision, but it is not his fault: our whole musical nomenclature needs it before one may be sure what another is talking about...
...High Road," though dull in spots, yet gives us Mr. Sheldon at his best...
...wainscoating will be finished in dull white, with the walls and ceiling slightly tinted. The room will be lighted by means of five tall French windows, and contains a spacious fireplace. The walls will be generously hung with tapestry, which, together with the other decorations, will give the room an extremely homelike and inviting appearance...
...building stands just above the present residence on Quincy street, and the simple and unaffected colonial plan of the exterior is preserved within, where the predominating some will be white. The woodwork will be of dull finished white enamel, wainscoating being used in the dining room, reception room, and entrance hall, in keeping with the colonial style. The doors will be made of dark mahogany, in sharp but pleasing contrast with the lighter colors about them...