Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station...
Something to Brag About preaches that dull husbands may catch a high polish at any moment. This particular husband comes out of his coma long enough to hold up a neighbor for $1,500. The same day, his wife decided she should leave him for a slimmer, sager...
...Home Maker was another commendable attempt that dealt not wisely but too well with realism. Its detailed drawing of the petty annoyances of business and domestic life become crowded and a trifle dull. The story that these details overwhelmed was one of a business man who hated business and his wife who hated ordering a household. Therefore they changed places and achieved serene success. Alice Joyce is the lady...
...resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided that the Admiralty made economies which affected the cost. ¶An important statement on the threatened coal strike was made by the Premier (see above). ¶ A bill to regulate unemployment insurance was passed after a dull debate by a vote of 263 to 98. The provisions of this measure empower the Government to prevent unemployment benefits (doles) from being improperly obtained. The Labor Party opposed the bill because it will deprive 70,000 persons of benefits which they would otherwise receive...
...deepen into profound currents that bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...