Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even while Chaoyang was falling, I saw long lines of Chinese soldiers moving, but all moving forward toward the front. Morale is high among the troops. I saw but few refugees coming back from areas already being bombarded or facing imminent warfare. Across this sector there is audible the dull thudding artillery, the sound of rifles cracking, machine guns snarling. To the observer it means war is relentlessly approaching...
...freshness. But to all save the most causal reader, this latest plunge into the mystery of Talleyrand is worthless; considered as an historical document, it offers practically nothing save a superficial rehash of secondary material; considered as biography, it loses all effectiveness in the morass of inexperience and slipshed, dull expression...
...degree. Individual course grades indicate practically nothing as to a student's mastery of his field. In consideration of the standards which it has the right to require that every man should give definite proof of his mastery of at least one field; in consideration of the dull student who has been permitted to enter and to pay for his education the same price charged every other man, the college is bound to give him, or even to force upon him, every possible opportunity for improvement. To deny the justice of these claims is to deny the principles upon which...
Sound travels through air 1088 feet per second. At about ten minutes past six one evening last week the people of Basel, Switzerland heard a dull and distant rumble. It might have been thunder, but the sky was clear. A minute and a half later the same sound reached Cologne, Germany, 250 miles to the north. Between 6:00 and 6:15 that dreadful roar echoed the entire length of the upper Rhine, and had been heard in five countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland. It marked the death of 62 people, injury to over 1,000, total destruction...
...exam (cost, two dollars), and more thorough preparation before the final (cost, five dollars), not to speak of the guarantee of a higher mark. The total cost, for the second half-year would then be possibly seven dollars, as opposed to nineteen. Surely the pride of owning several heavy, dull, finely bound, and rather worn text books is not worth twelve dollars. Robert A. Knowlton...