Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the outset the story moves at a rapid pace, short brisk chapters, each one which brings a new complex of situations or new discoveries to . The dialogue and characters are very convincing and the dull moments that do occur lost thought of by reason of the inevitability with which the dilemma arises at the end of every chapter...
Although regular lectures, particularly when dull and uninteresting, may not be practical in so controversial a subject as economics, there is reason to believe that an occasional lecture would serve to give the elementary course more unity. Undoubtedly, certain broad topics, such as socialism, tariff, and banking, do not lend themselves to adequate treatment in a small discussion group. They require a depth of learning and clearness of exposition which only the capable lecturer can offer. The discussion of certain other subjects in small groups often is robbed of value by those rabid partisans; ever present, whose personal convictions approach...
...October 19th copy of your paper. Of his fondness for milkshakes and black canes, I know little and care even less. Perhaps his generosity to the blind newsdealer offsets his smug self-complacency. But to dismiss his contributions to historical scholarship and his activities as a teacher as "dull" or trivial shows a singular ignorance of the former, and a failure to appreciate the real wisdom underlying his teaching methods...
...America's foremost historians. It is unfortunate that he conducts no course which would give us the benefit of his profound knowledge of the period of Cromwell and Charles II. It may be pertinent to observe that his general work, "The Expansion of Europe," which is neither so dull nor so momentous as the author of the alleged portrait supposes, enjoys a popularity in other countries, notably England, which is shared by very few other recent works of American historians. Altogether, it may be fairly said that, in his writings, as on the lecture platform, Professor Abbott's lack...
...bail. Before the screamer headlines on the first story have time to cool, Hanlon arranges for count and director to come to blows at Lola's house. The fight not only produces more headlines; it thwarts Lola's scheme, which Hanlon thinks might dull her lurid reputation, to adopt a baby, because it scandalizes the lady inspectors from the orphan asylum. When she makes up her mind to run away from it all, there comes into Lola's life, with a suddenness that she fails to find suspicious, something beautiful. He is Gifford Middleton of the Boston...