Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Beethoven: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, with the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini; Victor: 9 sides). The most majestic of fiddle works. needled with titanic energy by a great combination. But there are familiar faults: NBC's Studio 8-H is as dull for recording as for inside listening; Maestro Toscanini's refusal to pause for breaks between record sides makes it necessary for engineers to break arbitrarily...
...story's fabrication came about as follows: one dull night the British Air Ministry got together some of the invasion-attempt rumors which had originated in Stockholm, Lisbon, Berne, "and perhaps Chicago and points west," and released them for publication-assigning the date Sept. 16 to Netherlands sources...
...Three Quarters' Time," who offers a few dainty waltzes and then reprises for the rest of the evening. There is no novelty tune, nor anything that is even moderately good jazz, and by the third act you will offer your kingdom for a song. The book combines one dull situation with another. It just isn't fair to ask Marguerite Namara, Helen Gleason and John Lodge to submit to such treatment...
...once great Ramsay MacDonald's diligent but dull son Malcolm, now Health Minister, last week reported to the House of Commons the Government's plans. He noted that 489,000 (56%) of London's children had been sent away; that crowding in big shelters, such as the subway stations, was being diminished; bunks were being installed, sanitation improved, inspections made, first aid provided. But his report did not go un-heckled. A Laborite doctor cried: "If he [Health Minister MacDonald] can remain for ten minutes [in a subway shelter] without becoming sick, he can stand more...
...blotches were used to break up outlines of ships, tanks, buildings, is old stuff. Chief reason: parti-colored camouflage alone gives little concealment from airplane observers, whose sharp eyes are likely to pick up shadows, breaks in the pattern of the landscape. Today the idea is to use plain, dull colors, eradicate shadows, break up telltale outlines. England has had considerable success in disguising airplane factories and flying fields as farms by distorting shadows, building dummy roads. Germany disguised many a new flying field by planting it in crops, laying dummy railroad tracks across the middle to fool high-flying...