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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never one to risk becoming a dull boy by too much work, the President also found time last week to engage in several extracurricular activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Homework | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...quick call for reinforcements brought out the men who apparently are retained just to wait for such an occurance, complete with a gasoline compound known in technical terms as aluminum paint remover. By 8 o'clock the next morning all was dull bronze again save for a suspicious silver daub on one foot, and due to Harvard's well-known aversion to early rising, nobody was the wiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN HARVARD ALUMINIZED IN COLD DAWN; COPS SAVE ALL | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...matter; but the conception that a university is one happy family, the members of which do the same things with equal enjoyment, went out with pompadours. People who are interested in hiking and hobby clubs will continue to hike; and no amount of artificial on a campus they consider dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER SUCH PLEASURES | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

...redeeming feature of the second movie, "Accusing Finger" is that it can be avoided. It is a death house drama involving the reform of a cold-blooded public prosecutor. Those who go to see "Wedding Present" should plan carefully to miss this dull affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

...troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone, to tie up the line day & night against all comers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of New Ashford | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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