Word: hmm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawled, "that's a great company. I get very little from them. I ought to get more. I get $40 when I attend a meeting and yet they have assets of over a billion." How come he was dropped from the General Chemical Co. of New 'York? "Hmm-" George's eyes searched the ceiling, "I wasn't exactly fired. How can I put it nicely? There wasn't any enthusiasm for me to stay...
Well might politically sensitive Russians murmur: "Hmm...
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...some nefarious and obscure reason the course in Disbursing has been speeded up, and this has upset our whole way of life. Before this week, we thought, "Hmm, this isn't so bad after all," as we sat reading the evening paper after dinner. But this, too has changed until now we consider our selves lucky if we can scan the front page without a feeling of impending disaster. The bright and cheerful pages of the New Yorker are neglected, as we dedicate the entirety of every evening of the solution of weird impossible financial situation...
...Edward L. Turner of Nashville was practicing medicine in Beirut, some time ago, he noticed a curious thing: every year in the late autumn his stomach-ulcer patients got worse. Late autumn was the time of the orange harvest, and the people of Syria are great orange eaters. Hmm, said Dr. Turner...