Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn't say 'yes' or 'no' either [eyether, ether]. He would always [allus] shirk [shoik] making a choice [cherce...
Recovery began in Great Britain when she unhooked Sterling from gold, scrapped traditional free trade and set her industries humming behind new tariff walls. Today this hum has become a "boom" with riveters dinning all day in and out of London. Last week came another omen of British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British...
...being the only Republican Governor in any of the 42 states carried by Roosevelt in 1932. Last week Governor Langer attained a second distinction when he became the first man convicted of fraud under a new Federal law. For the past 18 months, Governor Langer has made things hum in North Dakota. He made a big to-do by calling out the militia to enforce his wheat embargo, his mortgage moratorium. When taunted by his enemies for a 5% levy on the wages of all State job holders, Governor Langer candidly replied that the contributions were necessary to the life...
...startling changes. Founded in Philadelphia some 40 years ago by the late Edward Brinton Smith, railroad banker, the firm grew slowly until after the i War. Then under a group of young Manhattan partners headed by John Wilson Cutler and the founder's son, Albert, things began to hum. Handsome, easy-going John Cutler, oldtime Harvard footballer, persuaded the firm to underwrite the first public issue of International Telephone & Telegraph common stock. New branches jammed its wire system with Stock Exchange commission business. Like all firms, Edward B. Smith floated some astounding flops but it managed to retain...
Author Mumford denies that the Machine Age began with the harnessing of steam, points out that "the modern machine age cannot be understood except in terms of a very long and diverse preparation. The notion that a handful of British inventors suddenly made the wheels hum in the eighteenth century is too crude even to dish up as a fairy tale to children." The real machine age, which he says has been with us 1,000 years, Mumford divides into three overlapping, interpenetrating phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic, neotechnic...