Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold and terrifying wastes of the Bolivian Andes. By day the treeless wilderness rang with the blows of a crude stone hammer as a swarthy Bolivian and a handful of Indians kept themselves warm smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia...
...whether political or esthetic, fail to move his scientific enthusiasm or stir his particularistic curiosity: "It will be interesting to see whether the revivalist enthusiasm worked up by Communists, Nazis and Fascists will last longer than the similar mass emotion aroused by the first Franciscans. . . . Folk-art is often dull or insignificant; never vulgar, and for an obvious reason. Peasants lack, first, the money, and, second, the technical skill to achieve those excesses which are the essence of vulgarity." Author Huxley speaks for the majority of travelers and intelligentsia when he confesses: "Frankly, try how I may, I cannot very...
...course consists of two lectures per week, a 20-minute quiz followed by a question-all in the section meeting on Friday, and "three hours" of laboratory work. The lectures are interesting from the point of view of their content, but for little else. The lecturer is dull, albeit rather easily followed when it comes to taking notes. The table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures...
...course consists of two lectures per week, a 20-minute quiz followed by a question-all in the section meeting on Friday, and "three hours" of laboratory work. The lectures are interesting from the point of view of their content, but for little else. The lecturer is dull, albeit rather easily followed when it comes to taking notes. The table experiments, however, usually make up for this, except when some assistant has prepared them incorrectly and they fail to respond according to Hoyle. The quizzes themselves, coming always as regularly as Fate, are taken entirely from the two lectures...
Colonial America considered by many a dull, dry subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...