Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dull parents are as likely to produce potentially bright children as are clever parents...
...agreed that Cambridge was "awfully dull" and wished that she could have stayed in New Haven longer. "The boys there never study," she said. "It's much easier to hitch-hike there...
...otherwise dull afternoon was joyfully broken yesterday when officials of the Cambridge Fire Department held a rodeo is front of the fire house in Kosclusko Square...
Furthermore, civilian netting in rural and small-town North Carolina did not answer the defense questions of Manhattan, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, around which lie vast patchworks of smaller cities, replete with well nigh indispensable lights, ground noises to dull groundling ears, an appalling number of dispersed targets for enemy hunters. Army men neatly turned this fact to their publicity uses. In North Carolina was concentrated all the modern antiaircraft equipment east of the Rocky Mountains. Twenty-four guns, in six batteries, were barely enough to defend the 1½-square mile objective marked off at Fort Bragg...
French painters of the 18th and 19th centuries were on the whole a lively and spontaneous group; and as a result exhibits of their works, such as that now in the Fogg Museum, are never dull. The Fogg display of oils, watercolors, and drawings is but a sample, and is by no means all-inclusive, yet a general idea of the art of the period may be formed from...