Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning a letter from Southwark sent clerks from Conservative headquarters scurrying to check. In no time their faces were wreathed in happy smiles. Soon afterward faces at Transport House, where Labor holds forth, turned a dull brick red. "I deeply regret the mistake," stammered Party Secretary Morgan Phillips as he withdrew the boomeranging pamphlet amid general guffaws. "The photograph was selected from a collection of 13 supplied by a picture library in response to a request for suitable postwar babies...
Luckily for the members of the Crimson skiing team, which placed eighth in the nine-college competition at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, there was plenty going on in Hanover, New Hampshire to dull their disappointment...
Legendary Atlantis may have been "enticing-exciting-exotic" as the billboards claim, but the movie "Siren of Atlantis" is not. This latest attempt to reproduce the "Lost Horizon" twist ends up in a dull, uninteresting, drab film...
Lancashire v. Lyon. What had happened to Western Union? Last year, Winston Churchill had grandly advocated the "grand design." All that Europe heard from Britain on the subject now was what one U.S. newsman called "the dull plop-plop" of Ernie Bevin's speeches, urging step-by-step progress. A British M.P. last week explained: "The French plan is an effort to pass on to some kind of European government the problems which the French government has so much trouble solving. Some call it 'escapism.' I prefer to call it the search for a short...
With no more adventure ahead, it would be a dull world for physicists. But Dr. Gamow voices a small hope that they need not give up to boredom. Perhaps, he speculates, bigger & better telescopes "will show us sights that will cause a complete turnover of present ideas concerning the universe." Or perhaps electrons and protons will turn out to be not "elementary particles" but small, intricate worlds jam-packed with new and fascinating problems...