Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This problem has long been a Gordian knot for which the dull wits of the responsible officials have been no cleaving sword. But a simple man and true, an honest yardcop, the flower of Colonel Apted's force, could shear the tangled threads. He would divert traffic from Widener's airy porch, the prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation...
...preservation of at least a portion of his educative intent, Captain Ayers must therefore thank Captain Stone. The salvage, however, is small; the Warner Bros. have seen to that. What might have been a dull and instructive film is muddied with a useless love interest; what might have been a mediocre romance is muddied with police records. As usual, when it is caught between two fires, Hollywood has jumped into both...
...Yale in 1908. There, in 1917, he gained wide scholastic attention. He had, for some time, been intrigued with the notions of the sociological historians. He had, for some time, been laboring with 350 years of facts, pictures, and costumes. And in 1917, he published that momentous and dull work, "The Expansion of Europe...
...legal adviser of Manhattan's Wendel family (see below); of heart disease; in Manhattan. As attorney for the estate of Ella Wendel, he fought so ably in court that the claims of 2,295 heirs were disallowed, nine distant relatives were paid to drop contest proceedings, a dull-witted housepainter was sent to prison for posing as Ella Wendel's nephew...
Bang went the heavy hand of Judge Bünger. He adjourned the Court before dull Marinus van der Lubbe could blurt out anything...