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Word: dullish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to see Greer Garson as a Western lass who makes good in Jim Fiskish New York and marries a dullish robber baron, you can go to "Mrs. Parkington," but you'll also have to see her finish up as a rather pitiful eighty-year-old matriarch. That is no fun, even if you like Greer Garson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/5/1947 | See Source »

...poetry"). But it contains little that is not self-evident to readers who know that poetry belongs more properly to the heart and ear than to the head and eye. Moreover, Shapiro chose to write his essay in a singularly lame conversational style which would have made dullish reading as prose and, as verse, very seldom practices what it preaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

When a man is healthy, the sound of his heartbeat is a solid, relatively high-pitched bong; when he is ill, it is a dullish, soggy boom. The highest heart sound is somewhere at the bottom of the range of a bass viol; the lowest is inaudible to human ears, even with a stethoscope. A delicate device to record these sounds on photographic film has been developed at Du Font's Haskell Laboratories by Dr. John Henry Foulger and Physicist Paul E. Smith Jr. The device consists of a microphone strapped to the chest, and a foot-long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Telltale Hearts | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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