Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch is almost as obscure as he is abroad, and for two reasons: 1) Germans are rationed only one hero and his name is Adolf Hitler; 2) Brauchitsch is the typical German Army officer, self-effacing, obedient and personally dull. Only time he ever got himself talked about was last year, when he divorced his first wife to marry young and pretty Charlotte Schmidt, daughter of a Silesian judge. Nevertheless, he possesses the thoroughness, persistence and greatness in his field that have made the Army the highest expression of German efficiency and perhaps...
...Dull indeed is the author who cannot get some good laughs, provoke an occasional shudder, excite a few mildly erotic curiosities, inspire a self-congratulatory mood, in a book about African tribesmen. No dullard, Author Elspeth Huxley, a cousin-by-marriage of Novelist Aldous, has packed into Red Strangers well-above-average Africana for the money...
Anesthesia and Antiseptics. Small amounts of morphine are used to dull pain. For deep anesthesia, gas and oxygen are considered safest. Oxygen tanks should be stored underground, where they cannot be exploded by bombs or shellfire...
...same radio programs, read the same magazines, go to the same movies, feel much the same about their jobs and their families and their health, carry on the same and for the most part spectator types of recreations, and almost uniformly find democratic participation in social and civic affairs dull as dishwater and comparatively unimportant...
...changes all things. Last week even dull, staid British copywriters found, almost overnight, a whole new set of advertising appeals. Examples, new and revised...