Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, this year's editorial page in general has been as dull, humorless, and trivial as most Ph.D. theses. Did every person who could write a stimulating editorial switch to the ill-fated Journal? If the CRIMSON board is in doubt as to the cause of its existence, I refer to page eighty of the October issue of the Lampoon...
...Note--The CRIMSON acknowledges its error about the Kirkland House play and wishes to offer an apology. Since Mr. Kahn evidently foresaw the omission, however, he missed a chance to help us out of our "dull, humorless, and trivial" condition. The starting lineup of the Harvard team was run in Tuesday's CRIMSON...
Life in Greenwood, Fla. was a little less dull one day last week when all the white folks in the neighborhood were invited out to George Cannidy's place for a lynching. Someone had dragged Farmer Cannidy's young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton...
Eight years have passed. Old hatreds are forgotten, new friendships made. Sharp edges have grown dull in those eight long years. Gradually each college came sheepishly back arranging meets in minor sports, then trying the major games. At last the final link has been forged and the chain of friendly rivalry is again complete. The causes of the first fracture need not be analysed here. A new generation sits in the undergraduate seat, eager to carry on tradition...
...necessary, up to the full cost of the education of genuinely brilliant students. None the less some such solution is on the way. Few nowadays will defend the old-fashioned belief that a young man gains enough from the moral discipline of "working his way through" by dull manual labor to compensate for what he loses in opportunity for profitable, leisurely reading talking, and listening...