Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aloft, the largest U. S. Army bomb was released, a 4,000 Ib. mass streaking down into a bullet-nibbled, shell-gnawed wood. A majestic, gloomy geyser of earth and debris arose, hiding the trees. At the edge of the range, some two miles away, listeners heard a long dull booommm...
...side and that of the United States on the other, as a gift of the State Senate to the United States Military Academy. These spear heads are designed to be used on the company guidons, and are about eight inches long and beautifully designed with an attractice dull finish...
...Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line at the Foreign...
...slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There has not been time for the dull courses to reveal themselves and exams in the hard ones seem far away. The refreshing tang of the first cool days has not yet lost its novelty...
Although the artisans, artists, scholars, and adventurers he mentions may only dull their fine points in college, how many will be unable to distinguish ragged edges from the unusual traits which make college a failure until they experience the temporary influence of college. A youth of eighteen or twenty who prides himself on being one of these types will not be convinced of his error, if it be an error, by merely doing as he wishes for a year before college. And better that he be a misfit for a few years in college and find himself at last, than...