Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull indistinctness of everything about him, the Vagabond fell into a muddle of thought of unsettled religious aims and clamorous politics. Then he thought of the history of the early seventeenth century. In a hazy and clouded storm of religious, political, and feudal quarrels, the Thirty Years' War was given to the history of man, and the cities of Munster and Osnabruck, separated by a few miles of cool night air similar to what the Vagabond now breathed provided conditions creative of the Treaty of Westphalia...
...Duchess and Casilda are rather dull at best, but the Duchess at the Hollis hardly possesses the domineering thick contralto of the Savoy tradition; and her account to her daughter Casilda of how she "tamed your great progenitor at last" is more kittenish than relentless as it should be. As for Casilda, she sings too noisily, particularly in "There Was a Time," a delicious bit of Victorian sentimentalism that should be dealt with tenderly...
...course lecture, in spite of upstart rivals in the tutorial system and in the reading periods, remains the central medium of university instruction. It is, accordingly essential that everything be done to counteract the inherent tendency of mass lectures to degenerate into a dull substitute for student reading. One valuable pedagogical instrument of which too little use is made is the class discussion...
...monthly methodology. Great names tagged dull articles. Owen D. Young droned along about unemployment and municipal economy. Archibald Roosevelt rehashed the purposes of the National Economy League. Chairman Franklin Fort of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board told how the Government is trying to help young couples own their own homes without a direct cash loan. Jay N. ("Ding") Darling discussed the August farm strike in his own Iowa. Incongruously sprinkled in were bits of Ogden Nash's flighty doggerel. Readers could only conclude that, if Editor-in-Chief Smith was really responsible for the content and make...
Today's contest should see plenty of excitement, however, for a team like New Hampshire's, which is able to complete 11 out of 18 passes, will never provide a dull day for the spectators. As a matter of fact, Harvard is likely to show some good aerial work itself, if quarterback Wells can live up to the standard he set in practice and in the Buffalo game