Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dull as the sex-life of flowers may be, they still distinguish between stamens and pistils, and the stamens are indubitably masculine...
Absolute tsar of all he surveys is the correspondents' genial dean. Addicted to chess, rich tweeds and almost flammable Virginia cigarets, Dean Young long ago began whiling away hours during dull administrations by practicing Senatorial mannerisms, gradually became more Senatorially impressive than most lawmakers...
...nearly 15 years. It was not much of a homecoming. Playwright van Druten's idea of celebrating was to bring on the stage some distinctly unattractive people who do decidedly unsavory things and come to extremely unpleasant ends. And he did his best to make the play as dull as it was depressing...
...babies (mostly bastards) born of feeble-minded parents to highly intelligent families for adoption. Horrified, Dr. Skeels hurried forth to see how much damage had been done. He gave the adopted children intelligence tests. To his surprise, their average I.Q. was 115, well above normal (100). Not one was dull...
...University of Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station. The Station found that when children attended a nursery school or were transferred from a bleak orphanage to a good home, their I.Q.s invariably improved. Concluded the Station's director, Dr. George Dinsmore Stoddard: with good upbringing even a dull child may become bright...