Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting aspects of this volume are the many stories of human interest which are scattered throughout the pages and their interplay with the histories of the lighthouses themselves. While thus making the work invaluable for reference purposes Mr. Willoughby has been able to avoid loading down his pages with dull statistics...
Western Maryland kicked as often as they could. So did the University of Maryland. It made the game dull, but Frank Clary got across the goal-line twice for Western Maryland's eleventh straight victory...
Undoubtedly, the mating of two persons with marked similar talent in music, art or politics will produce offspring endowed with the same talent. But, "clanbred talent" tends to produce experts with a decided lack of understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and stupid, cherishing rigid forms and traditions. Genius, on the other hand, results from the crossing of dissimilar high mental traits resulting in a complicated psychological structure in which the components of two strongly opposing germ plasms remain in polar tension throughout life. This tension exerts a driving force and produces...
...bright usually spend four. But it is one of the most interesting laboratory courses open to the undergraduates, and if one is at all fascinated with the complexities of organic chemistry it should prove a very worth while course. It is fully as interesting as Chemistry 2 is dull, because here you are dealing with the things themselves, and pot merely with their names...
...play, not of the production. Mr. Goodnow, who knows his theatre, has done all that is humanly possible to fill up the cracks in Milue's poor construction with good directorial coment. The result is a good production of a faulty, but not uninteresting play Act I is dull writing: in Act II Milne strains our imagination and the physical possibilities of the stage in the arrangement of the dream scene. Act III is almost worthy of Milne as we have come to know his fine abilities. Visually the production is admirable the stage settings and the lighting express...