Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both of these books fall short of making any contribution to the appreciation of the poetry of Wordsworth. Professor Herford is frequently dull, and never says anything that has not been said many times before. The work of Professor Read studies the subject from a new angle, but in the final analysis, his study has magnified one small aspect of Wordswroth's life so far beyond its correct proportion that his conclusions are meaningless. It is not so important to dissect. Wordsworth under the eyes of modern psychology as it is to attempt a tolerant and cogent understanding...
...dull are the Sunday night programs sponsored by B. B.C.'s director that most Continental stations step up their power to reach British listeners. †At an earlier meeting of the radio council, Vice President Henry Adams Bellows of Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., onetime member of the Federal Radio Commission, said that a proposal made by Secretary Wilbur's committee to allocate 15% of all radio time for educational purposes would mean a "great disaster" to the cause of radio education, for the present audiences which have been built up by commercial stations would not tune...
...eloquent address, Bethlehem's President Schwab had said: "We have had a stabilized wage rate since 1923. In boom times our men have done the square thing by us. We have not had strikes or unreasonable demands to disturb us when markets were good, and in dull times we have not tried to take our loss of business out of the hide of the worker by reducing wages. This ... is an outstanding example of the ability of business leadership...
...present British practice is to make dull-colored things out of massive materials (such as cast iron), state quietly that they are British, therefore exceptionally well made, therefore necessarily higher priced, and to try to sell such goods in competition with bright-colored articles made of light materials (such as pressed steel) and sold by advertising not that they are American or German but that they are efficient, inexpensive. Only by realizing, as Edward of Wales profoundly does, the inert, self-satisfied attitude of most British manufacturers does one get the full flavor of H. R. H.'s words...
...conduct of Foreign Affairs is neither so brilliant and romantic as the writers of fiction and the producers at Hollywood would make it, nor so tedious and dry as the memoirs of statesmen, with their concomitant quotations of dull documents, might lead you to believe. It is a career with a constant heavy routine and something of the emergency quality of the physician's profession, since no one can know when the ills that the body politic is heir to will break forth, and when the outbreaks occur, first aid is always sought of the diplomatic representatives. No Secretary...