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Word: hummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guard the Führer. First 55 leader was the late Julius Schreck, the Führer's adjutant and chauffeur. In the next four years the leadership was changed three times; in 1929 Himmler got his crack at the job and the organization began to hum. He and it have hummed ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Secret Policeman | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Since studious, balding Clare Bunch, 36, took over St. Louis' Monocoupe Corp. four years ago and found only $20 in the bank account, he has made things hum at that tidy little airplane factory. Oil-stained apostle of hard work, he slept in the plant, did all his own test-flying, worked with the factory hands when he was not busy at the drawing board improving the basic Monocoupe, a two-seated monoplane ($3,875), or designing a bigger two-engined job. Last week, with the bank account considerably more than $20, Clare Bunch lifted his nose from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Busy Bunch | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Cardinalem Eugenium. ..." A roar rose from the Square, before the Cardinal could conclude: . . . "Pacelli, qui sibi nomen imposuit Pium Duodecimum." At this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor, the throng, with apparent spontaneity, burst into a hymn, Christus Vincit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Habemus Papam | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Canada, the U. S., they are many a tot's first taste of theatre, many an oldster's last object of devotion. They draw dramaphobes out of retirement, lure suburbanites to the city. They foster cultists as rabid as Wagnerians-cultists who, unlike Wagnerians, squeal, snort, gurgle, hum and nudge their neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: G&S | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...only drawback to the job at present is that I'll miss the Prom she named one of Harvard's rival institutions--and they tell me it's the best party in the East. He, hum, well I guess you can't have everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nancy Wiman, Debutante Sparkle of "Stars in Your Eyes" Relates Story | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

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