Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tipperary Tim was being led to the paddock, English folk crowded to pat him. They liked the feel of the hot lather on his flanks. They were glad that he had licked the U. S. invader, Billy Barton. Tipperary Tim was a dull horse, a plodder; but he had a nice name that would go down with powerful Poethlyn who won the Grand National in 1918 and 1919 and with nimble Jack Horner, U. S. horse who won in 1926. Hardly anybody noticed two other horses being led to the paddock. They were not feeling well. One of them...
...Three Musketeers. Dull...
...will also be supplied; and the answer is that the probabilities are good. Specifically, the paperboys of the Waldorf and the hand-cart are promising for the time when the present stock is gone, and natural processes will doubtless attract enough new material to keep the quota filled. The dull picture of Harvard without characters will hardly need to be painted for the next generation...
Long will it be remembered in Wall Street that last week's unparalleled bull spurt came immediately after a dull bear market, precipitated by a sudden break (TIME, Feb. 27). Equally long will market historians discuss the reason for last week's phenomenal spurt. The principal reason was the unexpected action of the officers and directors of the General Motors Corporation in purchasing 200,000 shares of their own stock in the open market for their own account...
...smaller islands, but chafes under the obvious intentions of its two male citizens, and dives off in the wake of departing seagulls, just as a renewed upheaval submerges the island anyway. An overnight's swim brings her to company less aggressive but very dull, so after a few weeks' rest she swims off again-in search of a mate. Him she finds in Martin, erstwhile lawyer, who is quickly adapting himself to the laws of nature-storing up loot for the winter, beating off dogs that have already turned wolflike, and finally battling with brutish fellows...