Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he has written eight books about his work and has seldom foisted on his public an uninteresting word. Dr. Ditmars' friend, William Bridges, is the zoo's gift to Manhattan newspapers. Mr. Bridges is the zoo's Curator of Publications, and it is a dull day when he and the zoo cannot oblige with a good animal interest story. Together Dr. Ditmars and Mr. Bridges wrote, and published last week, a book called Wild Animal World, designed to let the public know how zoos...
ROBINSON OF ENGLAND-John Drink-water-Macmillan ($2.50). Thoroughly dull English novel, an innocuous tale of three children who spend their winter holiday discussing English history with their writer-uncle; the last Drinkwater completed before his death in March...
Many U. S. newspapers get local businessmen to sponsor church advertising, sometimes using art work and canned sermonets or thoughts-for-the-week. As chairman of trustees of Atlantic City's Olivet Presbyterian Church, it occurred to Adman Peifer last year that such advertising is dull indeed. He asked local clergymen to try their hands at ad-writing, soon, concluded that "their stuff just didn't have the right slant. They couldn't write a good ad." Last January Adman Peifer, 51 and hardworking, began writing institutional ads for the churches of Atlantic City, turning out swift...
...using movies in classrooms is as old as the movies themselves. Thomas Alva Edison thought that the movies would be more important as an educational than as an entertainment medium. Nevertheless, of the 10,000 "educational" films now catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit...
This White River story was warmly welcomed by the nation's press, for 1937 has been a dull year for monsters. Preliminary indications were that Newport's might be the monster-of-the-year. Twelve reputable citizens bore out Discoverers Bateman and Wyatt. Farmer Bateman and the Newport chamber of commerce built a fence around the viewing spot, charged 25? admission. Signs were tacked up on all roads-"This Way to the White River Monster." The story skyrocketed when the chamber of commerce announced that Charles B. Brown, a diver from Memphis, had been hired to investigate...