Word: dullest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alumni publication can be the world's dullest piece of reading. Most magazines of this sort consist of long listings of marriages, births and deaths with little or no current news of the University. Happily the Bulletin has been a far cry from the usual library-cluttering monthly...
...Gromek, who out-pitched Sain in the fourth game (2-1), gave only one base on balls. The 1948 World Series was in danger of being remembered only for precision pitching. Grantland Rice called it the Series of silent bats. Disgusted fans and sportwriters complained that it was the dullest World Series in memory. What many wanted were baseballs rattling off the fences...
Stocks. After the dullest trading day in |f our years (a 460,000-share turnover), the stock market perked up, closed the week with the Dow-Jones industrial averages UP 3.97 to 183.60, rails up 1.93 to 60.72. Volume totaled only 3,075,852 shares for the five-day trading week...
TIME'S story about TIME was the dullest TIME story in years, perhaps in TIME history...
...undulating vibrato. Tristan's frayed baying could only be heard when Isolde was swooning at half-voice. Minor characters lurched about the stage cataleptically. The orchestra got into the spirit of things by burbling and sputtering. Wrote the New York Times's Olin Downes: "One of the dullest performances of Tristan that we recall, with a new Isolde who is certainly, beyond doubt or peradventure, the worst impersonator of the title part in our considerable experience of the opera...