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Word: dulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand years hence ethnologists delving into college-midderns, will dig out such artifacts of Homo Universitas as the cram. The cram is a dull, boring weapon used to bar sleep from the study den. It is used to pound, stamp, and otherwise insert into the Universitas head enough assorted facts to pass exams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/17/1936 | See Source »

...appellation ''late, great" to Louis XVI of France, TIME, Feb. 24? History credits him with being lazy, dull, bumbling, and weak-kneed, lacking in intelligence and will power, more interested in his hobby of locksmithing than reigning France. About all he had was good intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Until this performance in "Desire" the Blond Venus has given the critics ample justification for their claim that she was merely a handsome woman who ran into all sorts of scrapes and took them all with the same dull look of languorous rapidity. To the mind of Josef von Sternberg, the dead pan was a panacea. But Dietrich under the new regime of Frank Bozarge is free to act, and she dispels with a flash all doubts as to whether...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

Whipped to a frenzy during Holy Week, the brothers assemble on Good Friday, each band with a lucky one chosen to be the Cristo. To the thin wail of the pipe and the dull sound of whips, they proceed to a hill of Calvary. The Cristo carries a heavy cross to which, on the hill, he is lashed so tightly that he turns black and puffy. The cross is hoisted up. The Cristo cries: "For the love of God, not with a rope ! Nail me ! Not with a rope ! For the love of God, nail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Blood in New Mexico | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...only in these obvious ways, but in the wrigglings of tiny bacteria, causing dull pain and anger and bad temper and unhappiness in otherwise invincible souls; in the Virus, which none yet understand save as agony and slow, torturous death; in the horrid unfinished minds of morons, lunatics, imbeciles, and idiots, living feebly and bewildered and sometimes in great pain, and also in those great ideals and principles which make it necessary to keep such things in their misery; there also will you find me active...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horns and Claws | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

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