Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...botanical investigations. The institute bandled also 480,776 packages in the exchange of scientific and government documents to 56 countries. The museum has acquired 254,032 new specimens of various sorts. The national gallety received as gifts a considerable number of works of art. The figures are heavy and dull in themselves but behind them is the combined activity of thousands of the keenest mines in the country, experts in science, builders of the future. Their work is a lasting one, a series of great achievements...
...orators will make a special effort to amuse as well as to convince their audience. In the past Harvard debating has occasionally been convincing but often extremely dull and uninteresting. This year, however, the debates will be made especially interesting to the audience...
Significance. The novel is poorly written. Except for its use of the Harding Administration as subject matter, it would be dull-reading. Even as a piece of muckraking, it is unnecessarily exaggerated and crude. However, it stands as one of the few instances in U. S. history where contemporary politics have been used as the basis of a novel. In Europe this type of fiction is no rarity...
...line twice more so that their team, unbeaten still, won their last game and the West Coast championship, 41 to 6. Richards of Yale jumped through the Harvard line as if it had been mosquito netting and thrust his chest in front of the ball. There was a dull thud. Later on, after the touchdown, there was a placement from the field, a field goal. Even the Crimson efforts of men with names like Chauncey and Saltonstall were not good enough to beat a Yale team which, in a game as bleak as the weather, unrolled victory from...
...Campaign. "I listened to the keynote speech of Senator Harding. It was long, conventional and dull; but he seemed to be very much pleased with it. ... It [the Republican party] believed 'in American policies at home and abroad.' This was very informing. It might have been interesting if it had . . . expressed belief in Italian policies at home and Japanese policies abroad...