Word: dulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roosevelt boosters have given him more journalistic credit than he deserves. One has said that the CRIMSON was "dull reading until Franklin came along. He gave it a shot of modern journalism that raised its circulation--and the blood pressure of the faculty." And another has exclaimed: "The astounded college awoke. Gossip carried the news of the revived CRIMSON throughout the student body and town. Men who had never read the paper took fresh interest. Well! ...Hm! ...Well! Well!... So the dead have arisen! ...Say, that's an apt bit, and this is a scathing comment...
...certain areas of the curriculum, and tended to ignore the rest. As he noted in his autobiography, "I worked drearily at the Gracchi because I had to; my conscientious and much-to-be-pitied professor dragging me through the theme by main strength, with my feet firmly planted in dull and totally idea-proof resistance...
...socializing and no sport makes Jane a dull girl. Since few moderns take their exercise a la ancient Sparta, the designers have created sportswear for action and relaxation...
...Bulletin published a series of letters supporting Hocking a month later. John P. Riesman '34 protested against the "dull, tasteless, misfit building which is about to be dumped next to handsome Leverett House and behind our lovely Dunster House. What are we trying to do now, impress the moderns, or shock the oldsters?" he asked...
...President did not underestimate Khrushchev's menace. "You may recall," he said, "that there was once a dictator named Hitler who also said he would bury us. He wrote a long, dull book telling precisely how he was going to do it. Not enough people took him at his word. We shall not make that mistake again. We must, and do, regard this as a time for another critical re-examination of our entire defense position...