Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions...
...annual exhibition at Manhattan's National Arts Club last week. Licking their buttery fingers, critics inspected 246 prints by practically all the best known etchers in the U. S., found prices ($4 to $36 a print) reasonable, technical excellence uniformly high and subject matter more than a little dull, despite the presence of a few startling prints by Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg. Quite lacking in false modesty is the society's president, John Taylor Arms. His annual prize for the best piece of technical execution he entrusts to no jury, awards on his own hook...
Such talk was sweet music to the mayors which made other subjects sound dull and tuneless. Attorney General Cummings talked about crime control and the mayors made a tour through J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation. Experts spoke to them on traffic safety, noise abatement, fire prevention. Senator Wagner urged them to support low-cost Government housing. One evening was given over to the problem of "busting the Gas Trust." But the conference really got back to business and excitement when it got back to the subject of relief and Government money...
Opined the Turkish Embassy in Paris: "Possibly she was depressed by the dull November skies...
...government, and addicted to duclling." The professors too, in Bancroft's opinion, were anything but gentlemen in the New England sense. They were learned, to be sure, but "they learn Hebrew, because it is better to teach Hebrew than to till the earth ... In conversation they are dull ... I have seldom been able to get any information from any of them, in company ... The answer always is, I read a lecture on the subject, which you can hear next summer...