Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea is equally significant when applied to college life. If learning is the main purpose of the under-graduate years for many intellectually- minded students, one University campus can hardly be the best source of all the subjects which interest them. A foreign language, for example, is often a dull affair in a section meeting. Yet when spoken in a proper European manner as a natural part of everyday existence, it becomes alive and inspiring. The best of college does not provide nearly so wide and opportunity for acquiring facility in pronunciation and conversation. In general the same principle applies...
...willing to play the adept pedagogue with the support of Jerry and George. They all go out to the land of plenty and for the remainder of the piece the playwrights thumb their noses at America's greatest industry. It is the story of the rise of George, the dull, to Hollywoods greatest and most well known producer and director, a rise founded upon a series of the most gigantic and glaring blunders that the mind can conjure. At one time, for example, he buys "a few airplanes" which upon closer inspection prove to be 2000 planes. His only excuse...
...intercollegiate football really belongs in the "Whither-Are-We-Drifting" Department which is better equipped to view with alarm the growing tendency. The least interesting part of every football season is the public bleating that has accompanied it for the last four or five years, a sort of flat, dull noise emanating mostly from flat, dull people...
...winning one. These things seem now to go along with stimulating professors, steam-heated dormitories and appetizing coeds or local debutants. But the student is not summoned out into the night to take part in a pop rally because the Chair in Astronomy has been a terrific dull for the past two weeks, nor does he snake dance or ignite bonfires when some wealthy old fellow, departing for Valhalla, wills the university five or six hundred grand for an architectural atrocity to be tacked onto the Field House and known as the Hiram K. Washboiler Memorial Wing...
...first quarter of the game, with Harvard always holding the upper hand, had been a trifle dull, certainly this last period provided enough excitement for the two thousand Abington rooters who had turned out to see the holiday tussle...