Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daytona Beach toward the judges' stand. A white mist hung over the course and the sand was wet. When he was going 80 m.p.h. he shifted the Napier motor to second speed. At 125 m.p.h. he changed to high. The motor settled into a rising drone like the hum of an enormous bee. At the end of the ten-mile course, without stopping for the usual tire change and mechanical adjustment, he turned around and drove back again. Mist obscured the timing trap where a red bulls-eye was hung to guide him. Slightly off his course Capt. Campbell...
...expression of amazement at so much time and labor spent on the dusty and the dead. In answer it must be said that it is by such dusty and often seemingly irrelevant detail that creative knowledge is broadened and the sum of human satisfactions is increased. Without the hum-drummery of fact-finding, Coleridge could never have reared in Xanadu the pleasure dome of the Khan. It is interesting to speculate as to what Coleridge would have made of the masterpiece in question if there had been a Rockefeller to pay the bills...
...Ruth Chatterton at 45 not only chat in the same room but walk past each other, in defiance of the old law of double exposure. Another new technical departure is a device which, more effectively than any other tried heretofore, eliminates "ground noise," i. e. the scratch and hum of projection machinery. The dialog is thrown into high relief, not always to the advantage of the picture. It is a story about a woman of the farmlands who, when her lover is killed in a reaping machine, marries an unattractive neighbor to father her child. The illegitimate daughter, when...
...number and arrangement of its skyscrapers, trolley wires, tracks, lamp posts. Said Dr. White: "The pitch of London's voice is low C. New York's is like the singing of a wire that carries a 60-cycle alternating current. Chicago's is like the hum of an automobile running without engine knocks...
...wealthy bachelor, maintained silence for several days. When it became plain that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain had no intention of offering voluntary apology to His Majesty's Government in Canada for the use by a responsible Minister of the Crown of the word "hum-bug," Mr. Bennett issued an official statement. The silence of the MacDonald Government, he declared "must be construed as an endorsement . . ." of Mr. Thomas' "condemnation in terms, unusual as they are injurious, of a proposal made by myself, on behalf of the Government of Canada, and which we sincerely believe...