Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Gladewater, Tex. one night last week, a 300-ft. mushroom of smoke and flame hung in the sky, casting dull yellow highlights on the charred boles of nearby pine trees, lighting the sweaty faces of many men. Sinclair Oil Co.'s No. 1 Cole well had gushed in, caught fire, killed nine workmen, belched flame for eight days (TIME, May 11). Suddenly came an ear-splitting explosion heard 15 mi. away in Longview. The fiery mushroom lost its stem, swirled up into the night, vanished...
...There is little need to go further into this vapid comedy after recording that on the inside of the program the title is spelled "her supporting cast." It seems that the girl (Mildred McCoy of It's a Wise Child, is more or less kept by three very dull fellows, each of whom imagines her to be his own true love. One is a banker, another an artist, another a fisticuffer. She milks them all for money, then the stockmarket crash comes, leaving her men broke. But Miss McCoy, being such a smart girl, has invested their money wisely...
...good time may seem to most readers thoroughly dull. It consists of a series of parties attended by people who are made to talk like the bullfighters in The Undefeated. A most curious effect is achieved by Author Craven when his vacationing adolescents are given lines like those which Author Ernest Hemingway originally wrote for fierce, sullen men. Sample...
...frees the architect. Gives him a chance to use his imagination. See here, take my necktie [speckled green & brown]. If I thought that this necktie would have to last me for the rest of my life, I'd pick out something pretty conventional, pretty safe and pretty dull. But since I will probably get another necktie in a month or two I can afford to take a chance...
Inductive logic is admittedly the most difficult and indefinite of the three branches. For the student who is interested in the course, the two or three voluntary section meetings during the reading period can prove little more than dull gatherings at which a lot of stupid questions are asked. For the student seriously perplexed by the final chapters in the book, lectures such as have been given previously would be of definite worth. When the adoption of the reading period adds nothing, and subtracts valuable explanatory lectures, there seems little reason for its continuance in a course like Philosophy...