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Word: dullest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dullest of sport events is shot-putting. On a track-meet program, it is usually an incidental diversion while running races are being staged. This year, however, the shot-put has thudded into more general attention due to a Titan named Al Blozis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 36 Tries, 19 Records | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Albert Viton's Great Britain is by long odds the dullest and most instructive of the three. A static, black-&-white study of Britain and her concentric rings of Empire, it ends by appraising the Empire at war, sets up those crises which await it at war's end, and delivers the opinion that it will survive them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The British (Cont'd) | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

This Harvard team could use some in baseball. It lacks a personality star like Lupe Lupine, but Eastern Intercollegiate League baseball is on a high standard. Any coach realizes that college baseball can become one of the dullest of all sports to watch, and they all try to do what they can to remedy the situation. Floyd Stahl proved last year, in his first at Harvard, that he could make his team hustle. There were no squabbles or arguments with umpires, and the players moved when they came on and off the field. They played nine innings of ball against...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 4/26/1940 | See Source »

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