Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although there will only be one board, competitors can specialize. The News staff will welcome the incipient snooper, give him a chance to interview chorus girls and deans. The Business staff will supplement Ec A, and won't be dull, either. The Photographers can find the niche roaming the streets with a Speed Graphic or puttering in the dark-room. And if you want to lambaste that movie or play you saw in a moment of weakness the back page will be open for your efforts, and free passes...
June 24, 1942 was a hot, dull, newsless day at San Francisco police headquarters. The reporters were: bored, thirsty, broke. Then one had an idea: "Let's throw a party. This is Booker T. Washington Day." There really is no such thing, but the energized reporters called every politician they knew, gravely informed them that Booker T. Washington Day was passing uncelebrated. (They explained to doubters that Booker T. was the "founder of the American Newspaper Guild.") By mid-afternoon 64 quarts of assorted liquor, one case of champagne, scores of politicos, plain-clothes men and plain people...
Before summer school ended, the Freshmen got a lot of dull dinners and one merry dance where the lads cashed in on Widener steps romance. A new school was also added when 150 chaplains took up residence on Divinity Avenue...
Debs are almost uniformly dull, but they do give parties. If you get invited to the Brattle Hall dances or the Eliot Hall dances, go; if the war hasn't put a halt to parties by next year, you'll get to know "the right girls" and be eligible for the stag lines...
Photoperiodicity, still a brand-new theory, has little data as yet on the effect of light on man, but Professor Bissonnette notes that the long Arctic night seems to dull the mating urge among Eskimos. The professor hopes some day to investigate this report ; the American Philosophical Society and other scientific groups are already subsidizing his animal investigations...