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Word: dulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks, but no further reward to Subscriber Wall for his well-meaning but unworkable suggestion that TIME dull the sharp line between editorial and advertising matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...best of English literature has long been agreed; but why the course cannot be made as fascinating and valuable as the corresponding survey of French literature, French 6, is a secret known only to members of the English department. One is inclined to think that the course is as dull and superficial as it is only because no one has ever seriously tried to improve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVUE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 1/19/1934 | See Source »

Ramming nonsense down the throats of unwilling undergraduates must be a dull business for instructors, particularly in the lower reaches of the academic world. One of the rare pleasures which relieve the tedium for them is to bustle importantly into an examination, strip the wrapping from the examination papers, and view for the first time in print those mighty cerebral efforts which are to be the nemesis of the class. Then suddenly half way through the test it will be discovered that question 2a is all wrong; a correction will be announced and question 2a will be rewritten with muted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEET OF CLAY | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

CLUB LIBERALE...71 Foity-Foist Street, Union Square. Pretty wild crowd what there is of it, but usually rather dull. Nothing ever doing. No floor show, no music, no food. Under new management (every week). Has never been raided but its a bad place to get into a fight. Has no bouncer, you can just say and do what you like. People just pay no attention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

...comics, Mr. Tombes and his female stooge, Miss Starbuck are fairly good, and buck up the dull spots. The production as a whole is hum-drum; passable, nothing more...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/11/1934 | See Source »

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