Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with such force that we still see some of the smoke going away. And ever since that original disintegration, matter has been breaking up into lighter and simpler substances. We are still in time to see this wonderworld, for we still have radium that has not completely extinguished into dull substances like lead and helium...
Foolscap, a curious blend of collegiate and professional showmanship, is spotted with as many dull as amusing moments...
...work, and superior mounts determined the 12 to 5 victory of the Harvard Varsity polo team against the slightly favored 110th Cavalry aggregation in the Commonwealth Armory last Saturday night. While the score shows the obvious one-sidedness of the game, the play was nevertheless fast and without a dull moment, the individual and collective power of the Crimson riders. Nicholas, McGuckin, and Davis, a Senior-Junior-Sophomore triumvirate, definitely proving the Harvard team to be a dangerous threat for the Boston indoor championship...
...cosmic ray theory (see above). Dr. Richard Chace Tolman presenting a reasonable picture of a pulsating universe. It is true, reasoned Dr. Tolman, that the stars are blazing into heat & light, that as far as we can see the universe is expanding, and some eon may become dull chaos, as the Cambridge physicists reason. But, if we use Einsteinian concepts, we realize that heat & light are ponderable, that the heat & light of an airplane in flight differ subtly from the heat & light of a household furnace, that gravity may entrain the heat & light emitted by blazing stars. In such case...
Rare is the dog-owner who has not seen one of his animals grow dull, lose appetite, begin to cough, vomit, twitch, discharge from nose and eyes, or show some other of distemper's dismal symptoms. He has watched despairingly, knowing his dog would probably die or be permanently marked by this worst danger to dogs. Until three years ago, distemper seemed an inevitable part of almost every dog's life. Uncertain of its cause, veterinarians were helpless to cure or prevent...