Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jesse Jones buttonholed Mr. Van Sweringen in the lobby for a heart-to-heart. The trustees insisted that some reorganization plan be presented. The protective committees insisted that this was no time to reorganize. It was announced that further powwows would be held. After what he called "about the dullest affair" he had attended in a long time, Jesse Jones went back to Washington to complain: "No one had a plan...
...Saturday Evening Post's tremendous family, Page No. 22 was always a page to skip. That was the editorial page, and generally the dullest in the magazine. While the G.O.P. was in power, the Satevepost rarely had anything to say editorially...
Wines and beer will be on the menu to sharpen the aesthetic sense of even the dullest dullard, while Conductor Arthur Fielder will present a program of light music of popular as well as familiar airs. Tickets for tables at box office prices, range from $2.00 on the floor to $1.50 and $1.00 in the balcony. The music lover suffering from impecuniosity will be admitted...
...rent and writing to the tax collectors. . . . I planned to make a trip in May but she said the taxes had to be taken care of in May, so we went in February." Why Mr. Wills usually fasts in February: "I began fasting in February because that was the dullest month in the righting business." Why Mr. Wills fasts: "Fasting drives the impurities out of my system." How Mr. Wills fasts: "For four weeks I just sip water." How Mrs. Wills fasts: "Ho! Ho! Ho! Does the Missus fast? I'll say she don't. She eats everything...
This transformation is due in great part to the general excellence of the lectures, which are delivered principally by Professor Matthiessen and Dr. Miller. Of course the lectures give information necessary to an understanding of the required reading, but above all else they make even the dullest student interested in the books which he is about to read. Few general survey courses surpass English 33 in point of ability to raise interest in the subject...