Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every time the Big Three meet," says Richards, "the need for a universal language is emphasized." Basic, being all English, is not a synthetic tongue like Volapük, Esperanto, Europan or Ido; and Richards neither hopes nor expects to see Basic supplant regular English. "It's too dull," he says, "and you can't swear...
...fear the time When I'll wake up dead And find death all dull Like...
...Hope. But one section of his native land pleased Miller: the South. There he discovered America's only "characters." No other people of any age, concludes Author Miller, have woven "such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as 'here in America. . . ." But there is a ray of hope: "We have a few years ahead of us, and then . . . the whole planet will be in the throes of revolution. . . . Fires will rage until the very foundations of this present world crumble. Then we shall see who has life, the life more abundant...
...cinema resists rational criticism almost as firmly as a six-day bicycle race, or perhaps love. . . . The common level of intelligence in the world is presumably that of the normal adolescent. . . . Ninety percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing...
...Tridione, a new synthetic drug, had a successful tryout against the petit mal (small attack) form of epilepsy. Tridione can also dull pain. Its strangest effect: to a patient under treatment with tridione, everything appears to be lightly coated with snow...