Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfect as that won throughout the United Kingdom last week by the world's foremost Conservatives. Everyone had expected them to win (TIME, Nov. 18) but warming to their Capitalist cockles was the post-election firming up last week of sterling, sound City shares and Treasury bonds. Though dull as a whole, the campaign had provided just enough brickbats and pieces of lead pipe hurled by Britain's unique proletariat safely over Conservative candidates' heads. There were no bloody riots, best of all no facing of grim domestic issues like the Dole. With genial intuition...
...cliff which drops sharply to the deeps. Next Dr. Ewing set about finding what the Shelf was made of. Every day, in good weather and bad, a small boat put off from the ketch, planted explosive containers on the bottom while the seismographs were dropped from the Atlantis. Dull booms rolled up from the abyss...
...Powell and dancing by Ruby Keeler. Lewis Stone, an embodiment of patriotism as well as the hero's father, restrains his emotions bravely, although his voice weeps throughout. Ross Alexander is amusing, but his part is not sufficient to justify the rest of the picture. "Shipmates Forever" is a dull combination of saccharine romance and big-navy propaganda; if you really must go, take your maiden aunt from...
...hypocrisies of the society, politics and literature of his time. Don Juan is not great poetry. "It is...meant to be a little quietly facetious upon everything...a playful satire, with as little poetry as could be helped." But the Vagabond likes it: "...when the old world grows dull, And we are sick of its hack sounds and sights..." 'tis good to turn to tales of adventure and the like. 'Tis good to go for an hour or so and learn more about...
...persons would take Dexter Keezer for a college president. Periodically since his graduation from Amherst in 1920, he has found academic life dull. For a year he was a reporter on the Denver Times. He took a Ph.D. in economics at the Brookings Institution but quit teaching after six years. From 1929 to 1933 he was associate editor of the Baltimore Sun. In 1933 General Johnson made him executive director of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...