Word: dulle
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Another error is to infer that failure to enjoy the first year's work means that the more advanced work would be found dull. In French and German, for instance, the introductory course deals with the grammatical foundations of the language; the later courses are concerned for the most part, with literature. Those departments, therefore, should be thought of as dealing, like English, with literature, which cannot, of course, be reached except by wading through a certain amount of grammar...
...something. A Saturday afternoon spent in glancing over parts of certain reserved books in the reading room will do more. A series of talks with men who have taken--or given, for that matter courses in these unknown subjects will probably be better still. This may sound like a dull and needless job. But the advantages of a wise choice, and the many and varied misfortunes that follow a bad one, are more than sufficient to justify a good deal of effort spent before it is too late to change. Indeed, it is not too much to say that...
...senatorial law which has no means of effectively restricting the length of speeches by members. It has long been the blight of the senate and on attacking it, in his so-called inaugural address. Mr. Dawes afforded the only bright spot in what was otherwise a very dull day at Washington...
...documents to be carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White House kitchen; replacement of a torn White House flag by a new one, with the understanding that the torn one be mended and used elsewhere. When the President turned in a dull eraser, the stockroom returned it with the comment that no new ones had been provided...
...being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment. Not so. For this task...