Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the intense preparation of both sugar lobbies to enliven this subject with new facts, the Senate debate was very long, very involved and, most of the time, very dull...
Players who have done well at pool or straight billiards often take up three-cushion, find it the most satisfying because it is the hardest. Curly-haired, florid Johnny Layton was the best pocket billiard player in the world before he decided that knocking balls into pockets was dull compared to pure cueing. When he won his first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down...
Harvard is, however, in a position to work for the abolition of football hysteria. While it may be granted that a season spent in playing intramural games, with a single contest with Yale as its climax, would be both dull and, for some time to come, impossible, still, some motion in that direction is desirable. Harvard can, better than most colleges, afford to do without the income that is a constant excuse for foot ball emphasis. It can continue to refuse an enlarged Stadium to be used as a whole on one afternoon in two years. It can instill...
Both sides showed the effects of the gruelling second period in the last stanza and play was slow and dull. Two single-handed goals by Paul, Toronto's speedy defense star, were the only bright spots in a drab twenty minutes...