Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...covered. There is no reason to assume that in every case the wealth of an instructor's information over and above that obtainable in books, together with his interpretative views, are such that it is essential for him to talk twice a week for a half year. Thirty-two dull, padded disquisitions (and who has not heard young instructors confess to this vice?) might give way to fifteen comparatively brilliant ones, delivered towards the end of the semester. The more the faculty become convinced that their function is to comment, not to instruct, that the ideal is not to talk...
...many as two things that really please him." The Spectator limited itself to four pages until pressure of irresistible copy should force expansion. The editors pledged themselves to "call it a day and retire in a body to their estates" the moment they feel the paper become a dull matter of habit...
...plot's the thing, and the plot of "Tiger Shark" is just the theme song of one thousand and one cheap triangle melodramas set to the tuna fish industry. Hence the whole plot is out at the elbows, predictable, and slightly dull. The photography is good, affording many interesting shots of the proper way to catch fish, which are like all educational pictures, much too prolonged. It is enough to say that this movie is amusement...
Promises v. Policies. With what he called a "collection of dull facts," Campaigner Hoover sought to prove that Governor Roosevelt's castigations of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff were based on ignorance, misconceptions or deliberate misrepresentations. He ridiculed his opponent's suggestion of a "nest egg" for public works. "It will doubtless surprise him to learn that the eggs have not only been laid but have hatched." At length he recited his relief measures which, he said,"speak louder than any promises" Hoover boasts...
...ready to hear the U. S. Law criticized by its chief guest. This he was, of course, much too polite and Distinguished to do. In Constitution Hall, with aged Frank Billings Kellogg presiding, Lord Reading delivered an extremely graceful, circumlocutory and boring address, a brilliant example of how dull a great and able man can be at a formal function. He recalled his distinguished U. S. friendships, expatiated on the profession, on India, on Anglo-U. S. understanding and world depression. Only with the politest indirection did he remind the U. S. ''brethren" that when England moved...