Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throne of Austria-Hungary, and thus grandson of the old Emperor Franz Josef he had hated as a tyrant in his peasant days. But Rudo as an illegitimate prince befriending the commoners, studying art, hating the nobility, philosophizing over nature, marrying a peasant girl, founding an orphanage, is a dull figure compared with Rudo the jachook, worrying about the regular arrival of the allowance that prevented his murder...
...Marsters' Primer for Harvard Students" began its run yesterday in the Sunday Advertiser. Replete with sage advice on the advisability of passing the swimming test, and recommending those who wish to be different not to steal the Memorial Hall clapper, Miss Marster's article succeeded in filling a rather dull page with type, and little more. A large photograph of our men "studying" showed two reading magazines, and two absorbing learning from empty loose-leaf notebook covers. And the circulation of the Advertiser in Harvard Square remained about the same...
...members of the Class of 1939 who have ever felt the urge to walk out of dull lecture, to suggest that more than one copy of a book assigned in a course of two hundred should be kept at the desk in Widener, to laugh at the strange names under which the most ordinary of ordinary foods sometimes masquerade on dining hall menus, to improve the method of scholarship assignments, House applications, or of changing tutors, to ask the Deans just why, or why not, to examine the interesting methods of any or of all the University's activities...
...peculiar industrial dependence under which they operate. Good or bad, the railroad equipment business varies as the square of the railroad business. When U. S. railroading lapsed into a quiet period of consolidation after the War, the business of equipping railroads became not merely quiet, but definitely dull. After 1929 it almost ceased to exist...
...life blood of the arts, so the arts stimulate men's minds for things intellectual and start them on a feast of which college is no more than the hors d'oeuvres. Then, professional training remains for post-graduate work, with the college viewpoint left unclouded by "the dull glasses of immediate utility." The houses and tutorial system make healthy student life an everyday reality...