Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then return to comfortable obscurity. Lincoln Steffens, more virile than the others, survived two revolutions and awaits a third. But to survive he has had to cut himself loose from the mentality of the epoch in which he made his name known; his companion passed civilly away in the dull garb of progressivism; he outlived them to become a communist. CASTOR...
Still on their horseshoe bench the six red-robed judges of Germany's Supreme Court heard more evidence last week against the five men accused of firing Berlin's Reichstag building (TIME, March 26, et seq.). Center of interest was still the dull-witted Dutch arson boy, Marinus van der Lubbe (only defendant to be kept manacled and in prison garb in the court room). Chief pain to the prosecution was still the pugnacious Bulgarian Communist Leader George Dimitroff...
Shrewd, fiery Defendant Dimitroff tried to trap the dull Dutchman into admitting that he acted as a Nazi tool...
Inveterate theatergoers will find Boston dull this next week. Of course they can still go to see "Biography" or "Let Em Eat Cake" if they have not done so already; the former is the more finished product. Gershwin, Gershwin, Ryskind, Kaufman, and Sam Harris; the combination should have been able to produce another hit equally as good as "Of Thee I Sing," but success seems to make writers a little stale; this brings me to Mr. O'Neill...
German 5 is dull and monotonous in presentation. Daily throughout the year the student prepares about eight pages in his book and translates only a few words in class. The alert can determine exactly when they are to be called upon, thus making it quite unnecessary to awaken for more than ten minutes each hour. The books read are for the most part intended for second or third year work in German and say so in the prefaces. As in preparatory school courses, the examinations are marked solely on the basis of literal translation of selected passages. The course will...