Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeated by Tryon, of M. I. T. by a close referee's decision. Captain Greer of M. I. T. lost his but more decisively, being thrown by Wood, the University's 158-pound representative. Both these bouts were exciting and fast, and provided the chief interest in an otherwise dull meet...
...close their doors; that hundreds of agitators, revolutionaries and other suspects had been hurled into jail. Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, had, as promised, pacified all Italy in 48 hours (TIME, Jan. 12). The Premier had kept his word. The strange noises which were heard were only the dull thuds and thumps of a political Opposition that had temporarily been put out of harm...
...that are best. Therefore, when he brings back Othello, the honesty of his effort, the stimulation that such a play must give our stage is to be commended without stint. Granting, however, the sincerity and ambition of the effort, it must be said that Othello is in many places dull...
Gilt edged bonds continued dull with a falling tendency, while stocks continued their rise, although more moderately than in recent weeks. The industrial situation continued to improve. Slightly firmer commodity prices were permitting inventories to be marked at satisfactory figures, while production in iron and steel, as well as in other basic industries, continued to advance...
...cold winter nights, outside the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, cabdrivers shuffle and swing their arms. It is dull for them. The people they have brought thither, wait to remove, are not even sports; they are music-lovers who give small tips, cold-eyed elegants in evening dress, or critics that ponder, as they read the meter, such terms as "a good performance, well sung," "gala night," "once more with a brilliant cast . . ." wishing to Heaven they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means...