Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...habit of sneaking up behind other institutions and luring away their best faculty men with large salaries. The other colleges suffer, but Harvard gains. You realize this after you begin to attend classes here. Every professor I have stands near the top in his field and instead of being dull as many experts, every one of them is interesting...
...fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe, with the detailed perfection of one of Meissonier's Napoleonic battle-scenes. Aside from being a little dull, the picture has only one major fault. Apparently Producer Bernard Hyman overlooked the fact that if one of the characters in any dramatic piece is Napoleon Bonaparte, and if this character is played up to the hilt by a competent actor, everyone else in the cast is subsidiary...
Leisure had never been Editor Lorimer's lot. When in 1898 successful Ladies' Home Journal publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis paid $1,000 for the Satevepost (circulation: 1,800) it was a dull little rehash of British journals. Yale-educated young Lorimer, a modestly paid 30-year-old reporter on the Boston Post and only three years out of Armour & Co.'s Chicago glue works, heard of the purchase, hastily wired Cyrus Curtis, was hired as literary editor at $40 a week. He became full-fledged chief after a few weeks, threw out the shears and pastepot...
...tempo of this picture is fast and varied, and there are very few dull moments. What it lacks in smoothness of finish is made up for in its variety of action and swift comedy...
Your problem is a not uncommon one. I had somewhat the same trouble when I was in college myself. It is a matter of common knowledge that prolonged concentration on a small dull colored object, particularly when accompanied by a low murmuring sound, is a very effective method of hypnosis. In my day I used to combat the effects by thinking of something particularly ghastly, like boiled turnips. But now, with college food so good, you will have to think of something else. There is an ugly rumor, however, that a dish called Vienna "Lead" Roll is still being served...