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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT DELIVERERS | 3/31/1939 | See Source »

Surprisingly similar to "Mayerling" in mood and pace, "Orage"--now at the Fine Arts--attains dramatic excellence through masterful use of simple, intrinsically unprepossessing material. In the hands of Warner Brother and Kay Francis--perish the thought!--it would probably have been trite and dull, for the plot concerns merely the tragic love of a marries man (Mr. Boyer) and a tempestuous, delicate, passionate femme du monde (Michele Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

Statistics--especially those found in the vicinity of University Hall--have a depressing habit of being dull and uninformative. Now and then, however, a set of facts and figures can be gathered that tells an interesting story; and, incredible though it may seem at first glance, such is the case in the realm of undergraduate concentration and distribution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAMPEDE | 3/29/1939 | See Source »

...Olympic skater, was forced to fall back on the reliable formula of the show within a show. Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford, as a pair of professional skaters (who never skate), achieve fame in the movies. Silliest sequence: Stewart's heroic farewell to his skating partner (Lew Ayres) when their act breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Author Zweig's characters are often stiff, symbolic, vague, even dull. But their melo dramatic personal histories make Beware of Pity worth reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Jinni | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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