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Word: hu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes hu . . . humidity?" asks a little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con Edison electric plants humming. This summer New Yorkers broke all records for the amount of electricity used in a single hour. But it's our job to anticipate your needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Lights Out | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Mark Twain Tonight! The white-mustached, white-suited, cantankerous old hu' morist burns as pungently as his own stogie when Hal Holbrook brings him to life in a brilliant solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Brief In Quemoy, Judge Hu Tao-hui resigned under fire after he granted a divorce without hearing the husband's side, then later married the divorcee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1959 | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...Mont Folik (real name: Mont Follick), 70, wuntym (1945-55) Inglish Laboryt M.P. hu twys introdust bils dezynd tu reform fonetekli dhe speling ov dhe Inglish langwij, inventor ov a sirkular rotating tuthbrsh, wuntym Inglish profesor at dhe Universiti ov Madrid and Sekretri tu dhe lat Aga Ron; in London. Follick's first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...greatest danger for Stu Symington is that someone like Jack Kennedy or Hu bert Humphrey will walk away with the nomination before anybody gets around to second choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Men Who | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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