Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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viciously dull as old Hector's," the reader...
ACCOUNT of the dinner party is dull...
...said that in this particular course, little or none would be assigned. There can be nothing but praise for a tendency in this direction. Particularly will it meet with the approval of those who have taken English 50b, read critical works in large doses, and found them exceedingly dull. In perusing the usual critical material, one invariably thinks of that adage to the effect that "those who can, write,--those who can't, criticize", a remark which does not seem to be based wholly on fiction...
...work with smatterings of laboratory work on plants which despite its brief survey is still one of the best pleas for the course. Professors Woodcock and Wyman hold the rostrum for the second half year with their explanations of zoological transformations. The practical research accompanying these lectures becomes dull and there is little of worth accomplished so varied and diversified are the natures of the experiments, which incidentally everyone knows the answers to before they start...
...inextricably tangled up. His style is thin and without distinction but he tells a good story. Perhaps because of his poverty of style you never feel more emotionally concerned for any of his people than if you had met them in the flesh at a dinner party so viciously dull as old Hector...