Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most encouraging evidence that the jazz epoch has become history is the improved quality of the current radio broadcasts. Not that the ether is purged to a dull intellectualism, as those who have listened to recipes for cheese custard, and Swedish discuses, will be the first to deny. We still have our "mauvaises quatres d'heure" of advertising belch, Irish minstrels, and Poet Princes...
...admissions criteria than have other colleges. Recent surveys have revealed a disquieting discrepancy between grades on entrance examinations and subsequent records. No admissions criteria can be wholly successful which allow an opportunity for intensive cramming by schools whose curricula are devised for the sole purpose of shoving dull students past the artificial barrier between the preparatory school and the college...
...great mediaeval encyclopaedias such as that of Vincent, and, like other things in Vincent's encyclopaedia, they are uncritically related. But this, only indicates a fact which none denies, that the middle age had not developed a critical technique for the writing of history, and only a dull reading back of our own critical standards can prove that Vincent, and his learned contemporaries, were themselves credulous of these legends. If they did not distinguish fact from fancy in the modern scholarly manner, the fair inference is that this proves, not a moony confusion of fact with fancy, but the lack...
...York preferred to do without German opera. It took the conservative Met a good ten years to build up its German wing to something like pre-War strength. During that time a new generation of Wagner enthusiasts grew up, to learn that the operas are not dull because they are long, that the Ring's complicated plot and hundred-odd motifs are well worth studying since they build up into such a colossal whole...
...excessively dull is the diction of Deputy Stanislaw Car that most of the Opposition strolled out into the lobbies of Poland's Sejm last week while he expatiated on the Government Party's bill to make the Government of Poland constitutionally a Dictatorship (TIME...