Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading, as non-Harvard men can discover in "Copey's" an- thology, may start off with something from the Bible-nothing dull like all those "begatters" (ST. MATTHEW,) but something with action like the Israelites' conquest of Canaan (JUDGES IV :V), something affecting like David's lament for Absalom (SAMUEL XVIII; XIX), or something portentous out of REVELATION. Or it may begin with so different a thing as Lewis Carroll's "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; " And yet you incessantly stand on your head...
...With a dull boom the ball bounced back to Stanford's 14-yard line, and from here Alabama, outplayed all afternoon, launched the touchdown that tied the score...
Commerce halted and impending Death hushed the people of Japan last week into a dread dull stillness. Their Emperor lay dying at Hayama (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.). They knew that the shades of his 122 imperial ancestors were assembling at Tokyo in awful conclave round the Imperial Shrine in the Chiyoda Palace. It was as though the people of the U. S. should suspend all activity, believing that Washington, Lincoln, Pierce, Arthur and the 23 other dead Presidents had gathered, majestic ghosts, at the Capitol...
Hypnotic drugs which induce sleep are often confused with the narcotics which dull pain. Bromides, sulphonal, veronal are hypnotics. Insomniacs take them habitually. Other habit-forming drugs are ether, alcohol, chloroform, hashish (the drug of inspired assassins) and mandrake,* sleepy syrup that comes from a forked root...
...sits on the seat of Cardinal Gibbons? It is His Grace the Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael Curley, a Roosevelt rather than a Wilson. But in Francis Clement Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma, Okla., Rome has found far more than an able scrivener. He is fervent yet logical, logical without being dull, slyly humorous but minus the handicaps in persuasion of one who openly jests. A good example of his talents is his mot upon the Mexican law forbidding the holding of political meetings in churches. Said he: "This would have been bad for the Anti-Saloon League in the days that...