Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Similar to all the elementary language courses, Italian 1 is pleasantly dull. Each day students appear with their reading or composition prepared, and the whole period is devoted to cramming grammar and vocabulary into them. Anyone wishing a reading knowledge in this language will find this course useful. However, those who simply want a "snap" should not include this course...
Weber. Only slightly less than Austria has German Switzerland been bombarded with Nazi propaganda. Stolid German Swiss have been unmoved at offers to trade their dull commercial comfort for the hysterical frenzy of the Third Reich, but last week they got mad. At Ramsen on the German border three Nazi toughs crossed the Swiss frontier, beat off a Swiss customs guard before he could summon aid, seized a Czech citizen named Hermann Weber, dragged him screaming into Germany. There have been a series of similar incidents. Switzerland's unvarying foreign policy (MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS) has kept all Swiss...
...between Japan and the United States, long considered possible, will then be inevitable, projected by our neglect of our rights and duties as a nation, by our dull indifference to our public welfare, and by our shortsightedness in not seeing the obvious menace which has been impending...
...democracy continues to be as dull in defense as it has always been, the attack will find us unaware and unprepared, and as a consequence Japan may establish herself as the permanent dominant power of the Pacific, forbidding us, as defeated Germany was forbidden, to operate certain classes of ships, or to compete with the victor in any way in its waters, and possibly compelling us to pay a great indemnity and to surrender to her some part of our Pacific Coast mainland...
When traffic is light, rails become dull with rust. In the past four months bigger trains and more of them have polished up the rails of all U. S. carriers. Weekly car-loadings have run as high as 29% above last year and many an operating deficit has changed to a profit. In the last reported week New York Central loaded 109,000 freight cars against 75,000 twelve months ago. Its June operating income was more than 2,000% above the year before-$4, 384,000 against $192,000. Average June operating income for the first 75 roads...