Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best thing about English 28 is that the subject matter was not written by college professors. No matter how dull the lectures, no matter how deadening the interpretations of section men, one cannot read a selection of the greatest examples of prose and poetry in the English language without a deal of pleasure and profit. For the man who has no pronounced literary interests, for the man who does not know what has been written that is good, or for the man who will not read unless he has been forced into doing it, English 28 is worth taking...
...dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern chair; the scurrying forms occupied by nothing, the sight of Sever...
Founder of the Academy of Arts is a personable blonde of 23 with a questing nose and a passion for self improvement: Eleanor Verande. Her life has not been dull. At 15 she had a job in two of the swankest Paris night clubs, Le Perroquet and Florida, giving imitations of Spinelli. Yvonne Printemps and Mistinguette, in French. At 16 she was Premiere Danseuse of the Lyon opera and at the season's end was dragged through the streets of Edouard Herriot's home town by 20 hysterical Frenchmen, dressed as U. S. sailors and shouting "Vive...
...well organized, and for anyone who keeps up to date in his work, should not be very difficult. Special stress is laid on thought and reasoning power rather than memory, which makes the course much more valuable training than it would otherwise be. It is not a dull course in theory, but has, rather, a great many practical applications
When asked about G. B. Shaw, Mr. Smith replied that the American public is fascinated by a name and does not discriminate between a brilliant past and a dull present. It is fairly obvious, he continued, that Galsworthy had little to add in his later years to the reputation that the Forsy the Saga had established, that the world left the prolific H. G. Wells behind a decade ago, and that Shaw, in spite of his amazingly brilliant mind, has little to contribute to the thought of today...