Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stone. Good, thorough teacher, although possibly dull...
...business mystery. Making up for the wasted years, the industry launched its fifth annual Life Insurance Week throughout the land last week with a series of "Early Birds Breakfasts" (8:15 a. m.). Local agents collected private and public bigwigs to tone up the breakfasts, put on broadcast after dull broadcast, dug up nonagenarian policyholders as living testimonials, prodded museums and universities to feature the memorabilia of insurance, inspired sermons on the "economic, moral and social values ,of life insurance to the individual and the nation," sponsored teas, dances, dinners, lectures, concerts, fashion shows...
...crooked lawyers and judges to release girls, both white and Negro, from Baltimore's asylums for the feeble-minded on habeas corpus writs. Once the employers had the girls, they worked them as maids for little or no pay, threw them on the street when unsatisfied with their dull-witted work...
Kohler extraordinarily good lecturer fast, clear, well-organized. Kistiakowaky. Good not quite as clear as well organized. Lamb--interesting but hard to take notes on, MacDougall--Clock--excellent organizer. Baxter--good influence--complete lectures on dull material. Forbes--learned--boring lecturer--pleasant to meet--too much. German makes advanced inorganic grim. Jones--helpful--lectures well. Bartlett--Advanced course excellent--lectures in B dull-good advisor. Fieser--lectures best in the department--genial but poor adviser. Jacobs--lectures coordinated but uninteresting--improving--willing laboratory assistant. Helpful younger men--Lundstedt, Swift, Tamblyn, Dunn, Avery, Tuemmler, H. T, nd. R. B. Thompson...
Greene Good tutor, but dull and podantic lecturer runs over the hour. Good but exacting tutor an authority on Aristotle and Plato...