Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once great Ramsay MacDonald's diligent but dull son Malcolm, now Health Minister, last week reported to the House of Commons the Government's plans. He noted that 489,000 (56%) of London's children had been sent away; that crowding in big shelters, such as the subway stations, was being diminished; bunks were being installed, sanitation improved, inspections made, first aid provided. But his report did not go un-heckled. A Laborite doctor cried: "If he [Health Minister MacDonald] can remain for ten minutes [in a subway shelter] without becoming sick, he can stand more...
...Because we feel easier in ourselves and see our way more clearly through our difficulties and dangers than we did some months ago, because foreign countries, friends and foes, recognize the giant, enduring, resilient strength of Great Britain and the British Empire, do not let us dull for one moment the sense of the awful hazard in which we stand...
...patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic is not a part of New York's intellectual life...
...University, has reason for being so good; nonetheless, my cars at least were amazed by its technical brilliance. Besides a hair-trigger synchronization, Michigan boasts a set of trumpets which for clarity, bite, and precision are near tops among all college bands. By comparison the Harvard Band sounds dull and over-percussive. It seemed full of the booming of drums and the bleating of clarinets, while the all-important brasses cut through very poorly. Michigan had only a few drums, but these few played the most intricate rhythms with wonderful precision. And when it wanted to, the Michigan Band could...
Although scoreless, the Adams-Kirkland fight was far from dull. In the first quarter, Bill Rand, newcomer to the Gold Coast outfit, blocked a Kirkland kick on the twenty. But before the Adams men could tally, the Deacons intercepted a pass and recovered the ball...