Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabled a first dispatch to the N. Y. Times, was what he described as quiet; but a shell hit the hotel where he was shaving one morning. Whether his remaining chapters are to reach a further climax, are to be torn off unfinished or peter out in a dull decline, time alone can tell. But no matter what is to happen to Hemingway, U. S. readers last week could reassure themselves that U. S. writers still have a front rank and that he is still...
...year interval between 1924 and 1933 was not to be immediately repeated, and whether last year's low ebb was but bed rock for another long series of victories over the Blues is highly doubtful. For this fall Coach Jaakko Mikkola is faced with the dull prospect of preparing a now starless team for the combined Harvard-Yale-Princeton run November 5 at Cambridge...
Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, president of the "Lampoon," undergraduate humorous publication, brought out the fact, never publicly admitted before that material that most people consider dull, is what Lampy likes best, while Alvah W. Sulloway '38, head of the Advocate, declared that his magazine was designed both for people who wanted to write, and for people with ideas...
...Gershwin and Kern on home saxophones, but for more bum Brahms and Beethoven, played by groups of amateurs on their flutes, clarinets, fiddles, cellos. Its author is Gerald White Johnson, editorial writer of the Baltimore Sun, co-author of The Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull of ear and asbestos of soul so far as "the fire of genius that burned in the young Mozart'' is concerned, he is an earnest flautist, plays twice a month in a Baltimore amateur ensemble called "The Faith, Hope & Charity Chamber Music Club...
...display of early texts used in the class rooms, and other material relative to the early years of the College. Some of the eighteenth century student's comments make amusing, if familiar, reading to librarians who spend a good part of their time erasing similar comments. One particularly dull book has been inscribed by "Read 3 chapters a day and 2 days of ye weeks read 4 and you may read it in over a month...