Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the great man in his hour of trial. During it, there were three unprescribed noises not all of which were fully audible to the nation. Once little, Julie Hamilton, 5, came to the head of the stairs in her nightie and called "Daddy." Again with a sudden hum the Hamiltons' electric refrigerator switched on and radio technicians gritted their teeth. Finally as Hugo Black finished talking and reached for a cigaret, one of the guests in the dining room applauded...
...Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord Corp. controlled not only these plus Auburn but Aviation Corp. (American Airways), Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. and New York Shipbuilding Corp...
...lucky to get a job at Bellevue right after coming out of high school," smiled reassuringly. He placed a metal cassette containing a photographing film under the girl, whose name was Martha Berger, adjusted the X-ray tube over her, turned on the current. There was a brief hum and the picture was made...
...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
...Latin questions were proposed after the lecture to the students. . . . But all we had to do was, if the question commenced with 'Nonne,' we said 'Etiam': and if with 'An,' we replied 'Non.' " Winks Northwestern's Wigmore: "But-oh, hum! Now that legal education in the U. S. A. has been delatinized, of course, the current generation of completely cultivated young jurists cannot appreciate [this...