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Word: dullest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Preventive Medicine | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Chinese history, the Shangs sat on the throne of China (1766-1122 B.C.). They offered wine to their ancestral spirits and to the gods of the air, and poured liba tions to the gods of the earth. What remained, they drank - it could infuse spirit into even the dullest men. They poured the wine in bronze pots and cups which were shaped to a perfection that perhaps no metal work has equaled since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wine on the Wing | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

These are some of the 200 questions that formed this year's general-knowledge examination at England's Eton College. Etonians, aged 13 to 18, got an hour and a half to answer the questions. The best of them got about 65% correct, while the youngest and dullest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Posers at Eton | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Based on an intolerably overworked situation, cast with unerring and ridiculous stupidity, and written with the dullest and least realistic dialogue in many a year, "The Wind Is Ninety" adds up to a confused humorously sentimental treatment of a non-existent solutions to a problem on which the theatre has been spending too much of its valuable time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 6/5/1945 | See Source »

...were intent on wrecking the conference were as dangerous as those who were determined to wisecrack about it. They heard Hedda Hopper cooing in a hotel lobby: "My dear, if this thing doesn't pick up pretty soon, it's going to be the dullest clambake ever held." They read Elsa Maxwell's astute comments on the Russians: "a bunch of magnificent he-men." They debated who was to blame-the officials who issued the credentials wholesale, or the newspapers that assigned the freaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: San Francisco Spectacle | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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