Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crosby stands Army Essayen, who hasn't seen much duty--he worked only two games--but who seems a reasonably good replacement. He lacks authority at the plate, but handles pitchers well and has an arm which, when used, is capable of nipping a runner or two on a dull afternoon...
...between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents a rather uneven collection of interesting and dull music, chief objection to which lies in the fact that the peaks and lows arrive with such regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance to top off the work. The skill of both...
...complete financial reorganization. If the News loses money running four pages, how much more would it lose if there were six pages every week? At the same time, livelier contents do not depend on finances. It doesn't cost a thing to run an interesting story instead of a dull...
Life for a picketing striker may be dull and it may be violent. For the group still roaming the sidewalks in front of the Harvard Club of New York, it is probably a little confusing...
...about himself in that humorously modest fashion that led Tolstoy to call him a wonderful man: "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly, it's not so dull, and besides, neither of them loses anything from my infidelity...