Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school teachers, says the council, "have never had an opportunity to confer with a college professor of English or English education or with a special English supervisor." Without reforms, warns James R. Squire, the council's executive secretary, English classes across the country will go on wallowing in "dull, lifeless teaching" devoid of "one iota of excitement...
...Negroes have a very strong and disagreeable odor. They seem to require less sleep. Their love is ardent but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination. In reason they are much inferior to whites; in imagination, they are dull, tasteless and anomalous. Their griefs are transient...
While miniaturization is now limited by the battery, which must be big enough for adequate power and duration, Bertsche believes that nuclear-energy sources may solve even this difficulty. Already in hand are means to switch off a bug by radio from a distance to save its battery during dull periods. Another battery-sparing device works by sensing the electrical capacity of the human body; it can turn on a bug when people come into a room or climb into...
From Siel, one learned more than ever that life and sanitation are not be separated. He was a superlative plumber whose thoughts flowed with import and were never dull...
...game itself should be pretty dull, since the Indians have an astonishingly inept basketball team. Dartmouth has won two of 24 games, and is still winless in Ivy play...