Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other attractions on the bill enliven with a modicum of success a programme that just misses being out and out dull...
...overstatement to say that the real value of Professor Shapley's achievements in astronomy marks him as that very desirable type of young scientist. However, by no means all the departments of science in the University are graced with men of his caliber, and the dull routine of uninspired teaching and petty research to be found there will produce neither first rate scientists nor significant achievements...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
...when you swing, swing like this," said Mr. Greenberg, swinging like that, but ending the stroke with a dull thud...
...writer that Mary Roberts Rinehart has told, in My Story, more than even an insatiably curious public either desires or deserves. As a series of magazine articles (My Story ran serially in Good Housekeeping) it has its points; .as a 432-page book it makes scrappy and sometimes downright dull reading...