Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profited from three centuries of Biblical scholarship and discovery of new texts which followed the King James version (1611), which was itself a revision of elder versions, not a new translation. But its English was awkward-its translators mauled the English language by following the Greek literally, like a dull schoolboy rendering Homer...
...premature baby is full of blood vessels which would have disappeared in the last few weeks of a normal pregnancy. In the unlucky ones, the vessels never go away, causing partial or total blindness. At three months, the child's eyes, still the same dull blue they were at birth, move jerkily, and a whitish tissue may be seen behind the pupils. Boston Eye Specialist Dr. Theodore L. Terry believes that exposure to too-early light may be the cause, recommends keeping the baby in the dark...
...contest, Wednesday's affair was strictly on the dull side, but it did prove two things to college rooters: first, the squad was sadly in need of a fast scrimmage before the Brown game; second the Stahlmen are still very much on the pace in the contest for the mythical New England crown which was thrown back into the ring by Rhode Inland State's convincing win over Doggle Julian's Holy Cross Crusaders...
...Kelly is no glib, ad-libbing Little Flower. Hewing to a prepared script, he skittered carefully, successfully through a dull speech on crime, written by an assistant. If his staffmen can hold him rigidly to a script in future broadcasts, they may be able to keep Boss Ed's foot out of his mouth...
...Elizabeth Metzger Howard's Before the Sun Goes Down, which earned its author, a Florida housewife, more money than any first novel ever received prior to publication ($20,000 from the Doubleday-Doran Novel Contest, $125,000 from the M-G-M Annual Novel Award). Life is never dull for Lillian, because Willowspring is astir from dawn to dusk with miscegenation, class conflict, drunkenness, antiSemitism, anti-Catholicism and incest...