Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble-shooting young legalites, Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, co-authors of the original bill. SEC was represented by Chief Counsel John J. Burns. Also on hand was white-crowned Lawyer John William Davis, whose imposing presence generated much of the interest in an otherwise dull case...
...great day for Miss Collins, who stood at her auctioneer's elbow throughout the long, dull sale. She tried to preserve the dignity of the occasion by sternly denying entrance to all photographers but scores of newsmen milled craning about the small group of men seated before the block. In that group were representatives of the bankers who bid to protect themselves. At a tall desk with clerks and calculating machines stood Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s vice president-economist who bid in behalf of Mid-American Corp., especially chartered last week...
...suave but untested histrionics. The apprehension was justified. "The Ascending Dragon" is good entertainment when Cardini is performing his wondrous slight of hand with cards and cigarettes. As a mystery drama it doesn't excite much praise. Slow moving, not particularly clever in construction, weighted with a burden of dull lines it looks like the season's first "also...
...longer must a scientist or a philosopher waste his teaching ability on sugar-coated platitudes designed to interest many bored listeners. He may now teach without fear the elements of his field. No longer must an intelligent student dull his enthusiasm in ill-adapted courses. Not only will he have his presumably fascinating field of concentration but also he may satisfy secondary interests instead of monotonous requirements...
...harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose...