Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-phase 60-cycle hum of the heaters in the furnace was to his ear "an exact representation of the noise one hears as a female mosquito visits one in the night, and one endeavors to crush the annoying creature by a slap of the hand on the side of the face where the pest appears to be ready to draw blood from the victim of its attention...
...first production cost $155, realized a fat profit for Big Bethel's trustee fund with admissions at 25?. Not very many white people have yet seen Heaven Bound but most of those who have were observed to look sorry with everyone else for the Wayward Girl, smile and hum in their throats when the Saints started singing...
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was sloppy. Prices floundered about aimlessly. Slowly the ticker printed out its daily 2:15 message: DELIVERY TIME. The hum of trading became slightly louder...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
...will be the lecturer as well as the subject that will draw the Vaga bond to the Germanic Museum at ten o'clock. Professor Fay, unquestionably an indefatigable scholar is still a hum an lecturer. It is due to the example of such men that the Vagabond has come to the conclusion that a good teacher on the plat form is worth any two professorial pedants is the stack room...