Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biology A, intended for those students who wish a superficial knowledge of Botany and Zoology, certainly gives only a sketchy resume of the science in the field. The course, filled mainly by a group of Freshmen who are working off their distribution requirement, tends to be dull. In the first half year the lectures by Robert H. Woodworth, assistant professor of Botany, are very well given, and the members of the course are kept interested by a quantity of good material which is enlivened by a sense of humor. In the second half year the lectures on Zoology are given...
...other half of the program is taken up by a very dull portrayal of what would probably happen if a great comet struck the earth...
...Labor is concerned the claws of the Blue Eagle are Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act. Last week Labor got General Johnson to use those claws, not once but twice, on the same day. In each case the result was the same: Labor proclaimed the claws dull, demanded bigger and sharper ones...
...called "golden-days" before the six came in. I am told that the progressive editors of your paper were over-ruled by the stick-in-the-muds who had retired from active work. They were of the opinion that an arm-chair sheet, with fat salaries and dull stories, was the more comfortable choice in the dilemma. Raymond Dennett...
...students in Harvard and other universities over the nation. With the backing of an able and coherent group, there is no question that The Harvard Liberal will fill a valuable place in the field of university journalism. In style resembling the New Republic or The Nation, omitting the dull preciosity, the innocuous smartness of the Critic, unsmirched by lecherous sensationalism, this sheet will be apropos, readable, and immediate...