Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luce believed that "America's great achievement has been business"?and he charged a new magazine, FORTUNE, to report business not in dull statistics but through drama, personalities and technology. After a year of careful preparation, FORTUNE'S first issue, an elegant and handsome magazine with a black and bronze cover, appeared in February 1930. Luce later said that it was difficult to imagine a magazine less likely to survive: FORTUNE had walked in on the Great Depression. As a later FORTUNE managing editor, Eric Hodgins, put it: "Almost on the eve of FORTUNE's publication, the whole...
...would seem to move slowly across the sky, providing daylight for about 88 days. Then it would set, bringing on a night of the same duration. It remained for a Cornell University graduate astronomy student, Steven Soter, 23, to point out that the sun's otherwise dull journey across Mercury's sky is enlivened by a solar variety of the hesitation step...
...opening piece fun to watch, pulling one instrument after another--including a dilapidated Fourth-of-July noisemaker--from a cache under his row of drums. His engaging performance made it hard to concentrate on the music, and it was just as well, for musically the piece is quite dull...
...would teach it? Why, who else but the man who has written the four sex, diaries we've just finished reading, Robert H. Rimmer himself. Some of you may quibble that a man who has already managed to turn four fictional sex diaries into dull, tortured writing would not be the proper person to teach others how to write them. But tell the truth now, was your own Gen Ed section man such at hot shot? And Rimmer reads like an easy grader
...Before long, the judges may well be ready to settle the when-is-sherry-sherry question on the expert and well-aged testimony of Falstaff, who defined "a good Sherris-sack" as a brew that "ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive...