Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally, but an eye of dull yellow when it throws its head over on its back. Finally, when he is old and all his friends wear feathers, the bird-painter will find that his pictures lose their fidelity to life when reproduced even by an expensive four-color process. He must set to work and copy...
...Dull would I be in feeling did I fail to express gratitude for this generous manifestation of friendship...
...American robin redbreast (named mistakenly by the English settlers after the real robin in England) is a thrush. He is a large bird with a dull red breast and he struts across the lawns with the characteristic thrush walk. . . . The American squirrel ... is a large grey...
...Gershwin completed last month. He got the idea last February in a low street in Havana called La Frita. The Rumba is a "symphonic overture" based on Cuban themes, for full orchestra plus bongo (tom-tom), maracas (rattle), gourd and sticks. At its first hearing it seemed lengthy, sometimes dull; but were it tightened up it might well compete with Ravel's Bolero, a work more shrewdly conceived but of considerably less musical interest...
...nerves, muscles and flimsy connective tissue. A circular system of muscles around the pupil opening acts as a draw string to decrease the size of the pupil in bright light. Radiating from the outer circumference of the iris to the pupil are muscles which draw the pupil open in dull light, like the pull cords of a curtain...