Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoary academicism is so completely out of keeping with the alert modernity which has always, at least to this reader, characterized TIME! I am always stimulated by what I see and read in your magazine but I was really shocked by this portrait. To look at it is a dull and musty experience. Why can't TIME keep step with art as well as politics and science...
...Pulitzers-Of all legends in U. S. journalism, that of Joseph Pulitzer shines brightest and most familiar. Dull indeed is the cub reporter who cannot recite the story of the gangling, weak-eyed boy of 17 who, though no "poor immigrant," shrewdly slipped overboard from his ship in Boston Harbor and swam ashore to collect for himself the bounty on his Civil War enlistment; of the taller, young ex-soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter...
...Albert B. Courchene, longtime city plumbing inspector, was shot down by machine gunners as he stood on the sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias...
...American Notes (1842) Novelist Dickens noted the U. S. citizen's "dull, sullen persistence in press," coarse ridiculed usage," "that flayed comfortless America's custom, so "licentious very prevalent in [American] country towns of married persons living in hotels, having no fire side of their own." Of a party of Pennsylvania legislators who came to greet him, Dickens observed "Pretty nearly every man spat upon the carpet, as usual; and one blew his nose with his fingers-also on the carpet, which was a very neat...
...Johns Hopkins in 1893. College, medical school and interneship bring a medical student (about 22.000 are now preparing themselves in the U. S.) to almost 30 before he or she is considered fit to practice medicine. "All wrong," insisted Surgeon William James Mayo. He believes college courses tend to dull the student's mind when it is most receptive. Dean Wilburt Cornell Davison of young Duke University's School of Medicine...