Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much emphasis is ordinarily laid upon intercollegiate athletics as a means of bringing colleges together, that one is tempted to overlook the quieter, more informal opportunities for contact. Newspaper headlines and brass bands blind the eye and dull the ear to all but the most spectacular events. And there is certainly nothing spectacular about a meeting of thirteen deans unless it be good material for the nightmare of a dropped Freshman...
...Company, which in the past twenty-five or forty years has grown from a little store in the lower end of Manhattan Island to an international merchandising organization, with its headquarters occupying almost a complete block in Herald Square. Its personnel ranges from seven or eight thousand in the dull season to fourteen thousand at the time of the heaviest Christmas business, and its total annual sales run almost to the hundred million mark...
Their candle blew out while an English metallurgist named Hodgson and his son, according to last week's despatches, were poking about the Golconda lead mine at Hopton, Derbyshire. In the blackness they saw a dull greenish glow. It came from a chunk of radioactive rock, no surprise in a lead mine.* The rock assayed $300 worth of radium to the ton, a new "natural resource" for Britain and science...
...dull red coat of preservative paint is the usual lot of structural steel, a dull red which is promptly censored by an overcoating of black. But from now on, the structural steel for all skyscrapers whose frames are by the Hay Foundry & Iron Works of New York will shine yellow in the glare of the sun. The first of them will be the Louis Adler Building, now arising on Seventh Avenue at 37th St., Manhattan...
...took to selling a lard substitute, conducting baking contests. The winner of such a contest in Shreveport became his wife. He hustled through a three-year college course in seven months to jump headlong into state politics-''on the people's side." His campaigns were never dull and usually triumphant. The cities to the south were against him but in the northern reaches of the state he firmly grounded his political influence with the farmers and their...