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Word: dullish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider the case of Ben Moseley and Pierce Jay. Both are Yalemen, both class of '42. Ben is a scholarship student from a public high school in Providence, Pierce a cosmopolitan product of the church school system. Ben is quiet, competent, dullish; he studies and plods and runs the campus laundry. Pierce is flamboyant, brilliant, a dazzler in every way; he downs his drinks with gusto, drives fast cars and is the spunky campus cutup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bulldog Breed | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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