Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Furthermore, producers of receiving equipment surpassed even the surprising demand last winter, and piled up this spring large inventories. Finally, the dull and uninspiring flood of stuff poured out on the air by many stations last season threatened permanently to impair interest in radio concerts; here, too, it is now felt that mistakes of the past will not be allowed to recur in the future, at least to the same extent...
...town, decided to rest on a bench. While he sat there a laborer, one Luke Owens, 49, passed by, stopped to curse, to abuse Gettis for his idleness. When reproved, he issued a profane challenge to fisticuffs. A crowd formed. Up leapt Mr. Gettis. His old hand, rivered with dull veins, blotched along the back with great patches like distended freckles, hardened into a knot, smote the bully upon the chin, dropped him to the sidewalk. Said Mr. Gettis: "I'm not too old to thrash an upstart...
...shallow scaffolding. Critics and adults cheered; the sight intrigued them; the music pleased their ears; but still the children murmured. "Where," they asked, "are the creatures which the producers assured us would take an important part in this spectacle of vocal pantalooning which, owing to their absence, seems dull to the point of fatuity? We see horses, it is true, even camels. But where are the elephants?" Alas! because of the inability of the stage to support them, there were no elephants. The disgruntled listeners were forced to remain content with the singing of the famed stars, the playing...
...anyone else who knows trees could pick out 100 buckeyes. In the spring, they are the first of the trees to put forth their leaves and lovely flowers, and it is a great sight here to see these radiant green trees standing in the forest that is otherwise dull and colorless...
...number, but the two at hand seem to be the most salient topics. The bit on the opening page, entitled "Class Day Conversational Guide" is quite amusing, but the same cannot be said for the trolley car scene underneath which gives an outworn joke a rather new but dull twist...