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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner left his house than he commenced picking more leaves off more bushes. He grew tired of chewing on them or swallowing parts, so he merely picked the leaves and threw them on the ground. The act was somehow soul-satisfying, an opiate to his empty dull life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

American schools and colleges are guilty of dull and lifeless teaching is the conclusion of Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and his collaborator, Dorothy Hewitt, after five years of work in adult education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Mather Criticizes Modern College Instruction, Calls Adult Education Only Hope for Survival of Democracy | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

Disappointment No. 33 is his new epical poem The New World. Homerically splendid in conception but plain dull, for the most part, in execution, the book presents a detailed catalog of slips whereby the New World has fallen from its original promise of a New Age to the "age of brass" following Appomattox; to the ''age of gas" initiated by "logolyrist" Woodrow Wilson; finally to the "age of soap-grease" sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt. Most tragic slip, in Poet Masters' reckoning, was the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man Spoon River | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

There have been brilliant games and dull games, and dubs, but there have always been tons of color...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard - Yale . . . A Day for Harvard Greats | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

Nineteen twenty-five was a dull year. The whole game was played within Harvard's ten yard line except for occasional punts, but it ended in a scoreless...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard - Yale . . . A Day for Harvard Greats | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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