Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stocks on the Big Board, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. has been the dullest and dreariest. Back in 1919, it cost $2.85 a share; in 1923, one could buy it for 25?. But for the most part, it hovered around $1. And there, for a jest, three potent stockmarketeers bought it in large blocks as the wittiest of all possible Christmas gifts to their wives...
...dollar. Bright eyed and mentally alert he can sit through all his lectures with one eye on his watch, the other on the window whence come signs of spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep, for now it is the plunk-plunk of a banjo drifting over rippling waters or the splash of a perfect "watermelon" from a twenty foot spring board that imparts a faint glean of intelligence to the student's shining face. Even the most exacting...
...York may be the biggest, Chicago the wickedest, Boston the dullest--but Detroit is the richest city in the United States. By a careful and crafty compilation of figures the Detroit Free Press shows that the individual income tax is largest per capita in the home of Henry Ford. It offers no numbers to illustrate what Detroiters do with their money after they have earned it, but one may presume that if the home town does not offer sufficient entertainment, they are at liberty to depart for points less wealthy and more amusing. Fortunately one does not have to remain...
...something in it. To begin with, the honor system as commonly practiced is less an honor system than a self-winding spy system. The student promises not only to accept no aid himself but also to report any student whom he sees taking aid. This, as even the dullest student knows, is a far cry from honor. In the second place, it is a system whose benefits all flow in the direction. The faculty is usually better for it than the students are, and for good reason it compels students to be honorable with the professor, but it does...
Since Author Bakeless presents facts supported by an imposing bibliographical reference list, and since his style is engagingly candid and modest, the dullest reader cannot but take bit after bit of fact in his teeth and go galloping off to all sorts of stimulating thought hurdles...