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Word: dullnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving here today and getting back home. It looks bad I tell you and I want to see my uniform is alright." "Well give me a ring before you do go to say 'Goodbye.' " "Alright, Kate-Goodbye." Sank back in my bed and that dull thud, thud in the head overtook me, the thud of wondering, imagining and trying not to wonder and imagine-the thud that has gone on continuously since that morning to this. Captain R. C. got his recall telegram and left, too. The next day was our village regatta on the river finishing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Herbert E. Bolton (history department chairman): "Excessively dull lectures; study the outline and you've got a pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pipes and Old Jokes | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...prints and paintings now on exhibit at Fogg Museum, when considered as a whole, can very easily turn a dull Cambridge afternoon into a few hours of interesting exploration. It is possible for one to travel from the highly sophisticated spirit of medieval Chinese art to the outspoken religious ardour found in the engravings of William Blake. With the Blake prints, some excellent pieces from Turner's "Liber Studiorum" can be seen, together with etchings and engravings by Goya and Delacroix. Blake's illustrations of passages from the Old Testament are reminiscent of the zealous poetry found in his "Prophetic...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...corner from BBC's showy (and now sandbagged) Broadcasting House. Like everybody else in London, Radio Normandie's outpost dug in, fitted up a sub-basement air-raid shelter complete with telephones, desks, transcription machinery, eating, sleeping, toilet facilities for its staff of 200; a phonograph for dull hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gloomy Sundays | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...GARDENIAS-Jonathan Latimer-Crime Club ($2). Bill Crane goes on the wagon long enough to solve the mysterious decimation of the March family by carbon monoxide poisoning. Supplementary kidnappings and felonious assaults guarantee no dull moments in this typical Latimer toughie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Mysteries | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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