Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coast-to-coast record, Manufacturer Vincent Bendix dangled before Col. Turner a $3,500 "consolation prize" if he beat his own record. Last year Col. Turner crossed the U. S. in 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec. behind a 600-h. p. Wasp Sr. This year in his dull-gold Wedell-Williams racer he had a 1,000-h. p. supercharged Hornet which he hoped would carry him from coast to coast in 9 hours or less...
...recovered its strength, sought once more to free itself. How long the duel might have gone on no one could say, for that night an agent from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals went into the cellar, snipped off Egbert's head with a pair of dull scissors...
...example, be more than one man in each class who finds that French 2 is a thoroughly enjoyable course. The Guide can only say to the inquiring student that the great majority of men whom the editors of the CRIMSON have been able to reach find it exceedingly dull...
...Pius XI at his summer retreat in the Alban Hills. Next day the Papal news-organ, L'Osservatore Romano, flayed the goings-on in Venice, deplored the failure of Little Women to prove as popular as Extase, thundered particular displeasure at the loud booing in Venice of a dull French film devoted to exhibiting the beauties of cathedrals...
LIGHTSHIP-Archie Binns-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). Anchored off a reef on the Pacific Coast, Lightship No. 167 is called by neighboring Indians "the ship that goes nowhere." But within its battered hull an assorted crew of nine finds plenty of action before the story is over. In dull spells they indulge in philosophical speculation, with religion a favorite topic. When, however, a hurricane comes up, tearing No. 167 loose from her moorings, casting her adrift amid mountainous seas, there is no time for talk. Whether she makes port or not is not told. It is sufficient that the tale ends...