Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Simon Lake's autobiography is a sketchy, tantalizing book, evenly divided between good anecdotes about submarine building and dull tirades 'against other submarine builders. Inventor Lake's anecdotes range wide: the Lake family's inventive genius (Father invented a shade-roller, Ira a telephone, Vincent a typewriter and Uncle Jesse and Uncle Ezra an unsuccessful flying machine); experiences in Russia when Simon was selling eleven submarines to the Tsarist Government; stories about the fabulous immorality of the Russian upper classes...
Friendly biography by an admirer whose accounts of the poet's life have the effect of documenting some unpleasant aspects of his character, and whose tributes to Wilde's poetry make it seem dated and dull...
...faced, deep green Landscape with Fisherman by Doris Lee, Isaac Soyer's indulgent School Girls and Robert Philipp's Dust to Dust, which won honorable mention at the Carnegie International last autumn (TIME, Oct. 25), showing bowed, blackrobed, firmly painted figures before an open grave, against a dull rainscape. There was no outstanding piece of sculpture like Carl Hallsthammar's Venus in Red Cherry of last year, but the exhibition introduced the work of a promising, 23-year-old, self-taught Syrian of New Orleans, Leon Koury, with a competent Negro figure, Compress Worker...
...concentrating in Chemistry. Those Freshmen who have already had sufficient chemistry should take courses B and 3, a first and a second half-year course respectively. B is unsatisfactory on the whole--it is rather easy, the lectures are not connected with the reading, and Bartlett tends to be dull in his elementary lectures. But this year a special section will be arranged for particularly qualified men. Chemistry 3 is a second semester course on Qualitative Analysis. Professor Forbes is hard for Freshmen to follow unless they have done the reading, which is also hard to follow, but the material...
Testifying last, Director Lilienthal was expected to supply the major fireworks. Although he occasionally put some feeling into his voice, once pounded his desk, his was mostly another long, dull recital. After deploring the "reckless charges, insinuations and unjustifiable slurs" of a "character assassin," Director Lilienthal defended his "yardstick," his negotiations with Commonwealth & Southern, the wisdom and economy of his power program. Of the Berry Marble Case he said: "I deny flatly that I adopted ... a position of deference to Major Berry. . . . This particular situation concerns a mere difference of opinion ... as to the course of procedure best adopted...