Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offering $100 to $1,000 an article (although the higher fees were rare), Editor Gingrich warned contributors: "An inside story of how a baby-carriage factory works would be dull and of no interest. But an inside story of a baby-carriage factory that is actually making machine guns on the sly -that's more like it." When it appears, March 31, Ken is to be a large, slick-paper magazine of Esquire flamboyance, liberally daubed with color and sporting "a full size picture magazine as just one of its several sections...
...Heir of Lenin."† Rykov and Bukharin said last week that they had nothing to do with the assassination at Leningrad in 1934 of the Dictator's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov. Yagoda, who had been standing with head down, snapped up at this to testify in a dull, flat voice...
...floor of the New York Stock Exchange one morning this week the gong bonged as usual at 10 a. m., opening the day's trading. Slowly the ticker tapped out the first sale-100 shares of Lehman Corp. at $25.50 per share. The market was dull. Suddenly the bell rang again, bringing trading to a sharp halt. As a man the hushed brokers turned toward the rostrum to hear an astounding announcement: the firm of Richard Whitney & Co. was unable to meet its obligations...
...Life can gain some insight into modern poetry, may pick up minor items of literary information (such as Louis Untermeyer's smug dismissal of Eliot's first poems), they are likely to be left wondering how so much literary excitement could have been made so dull in the telling...
...While the program of studies and the bibliographies are well-constructed, the lectures are often dull and poorly organized. This is especially true of Educational Measurement 1. In a school which strives to produce inspiring teachers, it is very important that the faculty be models of good teaching...