Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seniors are in the height of their glory, quite removed from the brown-hatted individuals who but yesterday were complaining of divisionals. And in a few days more, after the center of affairs has drifted away by way of New London, Cambridge will return to its former solemnity. The dull minded men of Lowell House, if such there be, will be able to start the summer session in peace and quiet, without fearing the distractions of loudspeakers, Japanese lanterns, graduates or attractive daughters who know of track and crew, but not of baseball. --BY TIME...
Movements as well as people were absent. There was no Revolt of the Farmers such as led to the withdrawal of Frank Orren Lowden in 1928. There was no Economic Insurgency. There were no "Allies" banded against the leading candidate. Chicago was calm, composed, conservative, deadly dull...
Such an environment furnishes a dull foil for the brighter items in the book. R. L. Duffus. Gardner Jackson, Muriel Draper, Gilbert Seldes and a few others contribute articles that would be illuminating anywhere. But, compared to the flickering literary illumination, it is the 140 pictures that shed real light. The 100 artist contributors make an almost perfect score of hits in the great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield...
...hero announced that he is positively out of the Presidential running, her book (being serialized in American Magazine} would make a first-class campaign biography. Though more competent than most such, it has the generic earmarks-it is simply written, meticulously laudatory, tolerably dull...
...Lump. A dignified Albino initialed P. P. entered St. Louis' Barnard Free Skin & Cancer Hospital three years ago. His head was thrown back, his shoulders hunched under his ears. He required morphine to dull the aching, burning pain in his head, neck and shoulders. He was, said P. P., 38, single, a farmer. Five years ago he had noticed a small, hard, rounded lump on the back of his neck. It grew to the size of a ripe olive, then rapidly spread, became an open sore. A year ago he had begun to hold his head back, his chin...