Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...docile animal should have to die--poor Cornell, poor bear! But although Harvard has never lost such a treasure, it alas never had one to lose. Small wonder that Cornell won in 1915 for the Crimson team never had a pet of its own to frolic with through the dull afternoons in the Stadium. But could the Big Red Team triumph again without its oh so human mascot to guide...
After the dull weeks of winter, the U.S. Navy went forth on its spring maneuvers...
...before be will venture new tricks. Can this account for the even sameness of Irish spirit which pervades the magazine? Certainly there is no boldness there, and even the Irish jokes have been diluted with un-Irish college humor, Lampoon variety, which seems quite out of place against the dull emerald background. The whole presents the appearance of a catalogue of sure-fire "Pat and Mikes" for the ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville performance...
Another error is to infer that failure to enjoy the first year's work means that the more advanced work would be found dull. In French and German, for instance, the introductory course deals with the grammatical foundations of the language; the later courses are concerned for the most part, with literature. Those departments, therefore, should be thought of as dealing, like English, with literature, which cannot, of course, be reached except by wading through a certain amount of grammar...
...something. A Saturday afternoon spent in glancing over parts of certain reserved books in the reading room will do more. A series of talks with men who have taken--or given, for that matter courses in these unknown subjects will probably be better still. This may sound like a dull and needless job. But the advantages of a wise choice, and the many and varied misfortunes that follow a bad one, are more than sufficient to justify a good deal of effort spent before it is too late to change. Indeed, it is not too much to say that...