Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brain Is Sliced. In their development of Dr. Moniz' methods, Drs. Freeman and Watts drill a small hole in the temple on each side of the patient's head where two skull bones meet. Surgeon Watts then inserts a dull knife into the brain, makes a fan-shaped incision upward through the prefrontal lobe, then downward a few minutes later. He then repeats the incisions on the other side of the brain. No brain tissues are removed. (In two operations they have cut cerebral arteries. Both patients died...
...real picture would have been far less picturesque. It would have been dull, and purposeful, and earnest. What's more important, it would have been the picture that students have helped to make, and the one they're proud of--whether it's photogenic...
...Faculty section has been the hardest to print; the pictures vary in size; the backgrounds are by no means uniform. We feel that to add the pictures of 350 professors and instructors to the 1800 Juniors and Seniors already included in the book will make it inflexibly dull...
Details of the latest developments are under lock & key, but World War II has been the making of indium: Indium is a once-rare metal that even in very small quantities makes soft metals hard, dull ones bright, and does many an odd job in stretching the supply of critical materials. It is silver white, malleable, ductile, soft, more than twice as heavy as iron, lighter than lead...
West Coast broadcasting officials were handed one of radio's biggest wartime headaches last summer: to find a way of making a dull but important civilian defense job glamorous. By this week radio's headache had become one of radio's outstanding programs...