Word: duller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, a meeting of the New England Emergency Fuel Committee was held. Governor Duller of Massachusetts and Governor Winant of New Hampshire were present, and the other New England Governors sent representatives. John Hays Hammond, who was Chairman of the late U. S. Coal Commission (1920-23) which drafted a survey of the industry and made recommendations for preventing strikes, was elected Chairman of the New England Committee. Plans were laid for educating the New England public to the use of bituminous coal. Said Mr. Hammond...
...words of Mr. Barnard, a man far too human to say more, too kind to raise the hopes of those men in whose bodies burrow those minute, obscure carriers of death. But to medical men his clipped announcement made the fantastic whispers that had come to them seem duller than the garrulities of a midwife...
There is nothing duller in the Senate's business than the approval of the long lists of postmasters periodically nominated for office by the President. Yet the knowing were very much interested by a block of 40 postmasters whose names the President submitted last week...
...however, that the stock market is now, as upon former occasions, a better index to the future than the postprandial discourses of many of its critics. The largely featureless stock market of the past few weeks may prove next Spring to have reflected a period of duller but largely painless business conditions. But by that time the public who watch stock prices will be more interested in their bearing on the Fall of 1924 than upon their forecasting accuracy this Autumn...
John Corbin: "A world without such pieces would be appreciably duller...