Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Publisher Macfadden began to make up for lost time. Upon the front of his Graphic he spread a full page "composograph" (faked picture) of a young man in Sing Sing's electric chair. The young man was Francis ("Two Gun") Crowley, 20, undersized, dull-witted hoodlum who murdered a policeman last year. His capture was a sensation of the sort on which he thrived. Cornered in a midtown apartment house with his 17-year-old girl friend and another gunman, he held off more than 100 police, armed with tear gas and machine guns, for two hours...
...days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
...defects of American university methods have the ability to raise the intellectual level of secondary teaching. But, unfortunately, pull or a "smooth line" are likely to determine the selection of applicants in many places, and the majority of male teachers will continue for a while to be lazy, dull, and conservative...
...Museum has come a change in policy which is greatly to be commended. Formerly the museum acdontarily collected dust. It's huge plaster casts of bronze monuments throughout Germany, casts which Kaisar Wilhelm presented to the University when he was currying favor in America, rested undisturbed. Countless architectural photographs, dull and uninteresting, lined the walls. Only people attracted by the extraordinary beauty of the building itself ever returned to the museum...
...Vagabond spent a bad day of it yesterday. The reading period is dull going for such as he what with no lectures and every one either away from Cambridge or hidden somewhere in the stacks. He spent the morning wandering about the Yard trying to seek consolation in self communion. When that failed he invented a new game which served well enough for a time; he tried counting the bricks as the masons were laying up the walls of the new chapel, but he soon lost track. At last in desperation he dropped in to a house for lunch. There...