Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...vital significance of this step toward the solution of the labor problem, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest of the twentieth century, must be plain even to the dullest. Today organized labor is in a very trying position; it must, on the one hand, retain the support of the laboring man in its moderate measures as against the violence of Bolshevism, and upon the other, it must see that those moderate measures are put through. English labor men have for many years received such educations with the result that they are diplomats as contrasted with the fighting type...
...comes to us is "If I had only known!" If we had only known what fine things lay ahead how much better would have been our beginning. And yet how were we to tell? How were we to know when we started our beginners' Latin or Greek, studying the dullest sort of composition, of the glories of classic thought and poetry. This purposeless choice and following of our elementary courses can account for more wasted time than any one factor in our academic training...
Then comes another "war" story--with nothing in it about warfare; then a poem about "the 'pyrus' of the Nile" (we take this to be some new-fangled allegory on those famous banks); then another poem about "our reckless youth," as brilliant as the dullest of the dull spots in a certain older poet; and then a one-act play which with twice as much dramatic spirit would have almost half enough for half...