Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Editor Housman, Wordsworth is the great poet "it is most easy to laugh at, and sometimes the most difficult not to find dull." He was conservative, parochial, smug. "I could have written like Shakespeare," Wordsworth is reported to have said to Charles Lamb, "had I had a mind." "Yes," stammered Lamb, "it was the m-m-mind that was 1-1-lacking...
These last few months Winnie had been about as happy as any Prime Minister could be who had been turned out to graze. On the whole, life was good, even if it was dull. In Florida he would paint, and perhaps start writing those memoirs...
...state accepted long-ago the principle that all pupils, bright and dull, were entitled to the same education. But the right to learn does not seem to carry with it the ability...
...were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that. But it was true of the people who were in dull, uninspiring work on unglamorous shore duty. A person who is liberally educated-one who has a good many resources and is able to adapt himself-is in a much stronger position to stand the gaff...
...frequent occasions, Canadians damn him roundly, call him timid and dull, scoff at him, invent bad jokes about him. But on polling day they vote for him. They feel he is good for Canada. Said one Ontario capitalist just before last June's elections: "If you had a salesman who had no personality but he brought in the orders, you'd keep him. I think we ought to keep...