Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history contains few more provoking mysteries than the personality of Ulysses S. Grant, described by Henry Adams as "shy; jealous; sometimes vindictive; more or less dull in outward appearance; always needing stimulants." Grant was an easygoing, touchy, unimpressive soldier in his early career, later a devoted family man who failed with an almost uncanny thoroughness as a farmer, rent collector, store clerk, before he blossomed as the stolid genius of the Civil War. An essentially honest man who labored in terrible agony to pay his personal debts. Grant became identified with the most scandalous corruption that ever touched a President...
...clerk had barked out three or four of their names before drowsy Senators realized that a final vote on the tax bill was being called. Rousing, they passed it by 57 to 22, after two dull days of strictly routine exposition, strictly political debate...
Normally the reverse of such exuberance, Governor Tannery makes a musty hobby of 17th and 18th Century first editions on which he writes dull, learned monographs. Dressed in the conventional black of French functionaries, he often noses unnoticed among the bookstalls along the Seine, seeking a bargain-treasure which he bears off in quiet triumph to his admiring wife and daughters three...
Since four-fifths of Cook County, Ill. consists of the city of Chicago, which has a school superintendent of its own, life in the County Superintendent's office has its dull moments. For six years those moments have been enlivened by paunchy, grey-haired Otto Aken and dapper young Noble Puffer. Up to 1933 both were assistant superintendents. When the Superintendent died a Democratic school board appointed Mr. Aken to fill out the unexpired term. But before the next election wily Noble Puffer elbowed his superior out of Democratic graces, won the nomination. Superintendent Aken accused him of falsifying...
...their last SEC report on stockholdings will receive nearly $200,000. Timken Roller Bearing is essentially a family business and the Timkens are a tight-lipped family. The company was founded as a carriage works in the last century by Henry Timken, onetime blacksmith. Founder Timken thought carriages dull the moment he began experimenting with cup and cone ball bearings. His enthusiasm infected his two sons when the huge possibilities of the automobile bearing market opened up around 1900. Henry Holiday and William Timken promptly abandoned Timken Carriage Works for Timken Roller Bearing...