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Word: dullnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best, as has been made painfully clear in Cambridge as well as New Haven by some good teams and some that are not so good. But whenever we get together the game comes alive: slow men run fast, fast men just plain take off. Harvard-Yale games are never dull, and this one--with both teams emphasizing offense--will be busy enough for all but the masochists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LXVI | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...story with the death of Bosinney and used a flashback to recount the central action of the picture. For those who had not read the book, this must have taken much of the punch out of the plot. If this wasn't enough to do so, then the astonishingly dull seript was. Some of the lines were so trite, that I felt the way an English A teacher must when his pupils read their early themes...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: That Forsyte Woman | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

This is a dull topic. And there is no getting around it. Especially after the just completed municipal and senatorial campaigns, with their many oratorical orgasms, Class Committee elections seem unimportant. If they produce anything, it will probably he only an increased apathy among the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dull Topic | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

From a distance it looked like a dull campaign between two dignified, successful and high-minded men. But in New York State's special election for a vacated seat in the U.S. Senate there was the sound of drums. The most emphatic thumps came from the Republican camp. There, looking worried and work-worn, stood John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, an ex-Wall Street lawyer and an eminent internationalist. He was doing something not to be expected of a Republican candidate of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Something New | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Christopher Columbus (Rank; Universal-International) turns an exciting bit of history into a series of dull tableaux in antiqued color. Even ten-year-olds, at whom this British-made movie is plainly aimed, will find it about as thrilling as an afternoon spent looking at Christmas cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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