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Word: dullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debate thus centered more on the question of a referendum, than on NSA itself. Abraham F. Lowenthal '61 argued that there was no need for a referendum "on a question which the students find quite dull," while Edward A. Segal '60 asserted that the Council, being more aware of NSA's activities, should act as a representative body and make its own decision...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Supports NSA, Rejects NDEA Findings | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...play. Thereafter, the two can only mope while apart, come uneasily together, then part once more. When they meet, they talk too much, weep too much, morali e too much. Between whiles, Chéri chiefly features amusing-looking demireps, whose talk is incredibly dull. Eventually Léa. at 60, reaches the age of content, but Chéri kills himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Much Ado About Nothing. Delightful subplotters John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton make the play's dull main plot well worth sitting through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...After a dull first half, Centre quarterback Bo McMillin, his path cleared by Roberts' devastating blocking, exploded for 32 yards and a touchdown the first time the Praying Colonels had the ball in the third period...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

Climate of Horror. Unmarried at 32, Eleanor Vance has spent the past eleven years of her life caring for a sick mother whom she hated. Now Mama has died, Eleanor is living with a dull married sister, and her experience of life is a dreary vacuum. It is almost like liberation when Dr. Montague takes her on as one of three assistants to check psychic phenomena at a haunted house in a grubby small town. Author Jackson, a self-confessed dabbler in magic, sets her scene with professional care. The big old house is a crazily built warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mom Did It | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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