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Now near the end of their sojourn, however, the Dulls are finding that their ideals of cross-cultivation do not so easily take root.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Dulls have been given a car and gasoline and receive a monthly stipend of about $700 apiece.

From Time Magazine Archive

Working with the Soviet embassy in Washington and the Soviet Ministry for Agriculture, the Dulls set up a unique Soviet-American farm-exchange program.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ay, and even mine, that stood so diamond-keen Like iron lately dipped, droops now dis-edged And weakened by this woman, whom to leave A widow with her orphan to my foes, Dulls me with pity.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Yet in all the head low-bent Dulls the soul and blunts the senses, though their forms be different.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)