Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week greying, hulking Alexander ("Sandy") Calder tried to explain to the press the collection of mysterious objects made of bits of wire, scraps of bright tin, cardboard, wood and strips of felt which, with a grinding of toy gears and hum of little electric motors, bounced and joggled, slithered and woggled in the Manhattan Gallery of Pierre Matisse. Artist Calder called them his "Mobiles." Other abstractions in bent wire and wood that did not move were called "Stabiles." Gallery-goers found them strangely exciting...
...will employees as was originally demanded. True, the company will drop its injunction suit and union members will be able to get much-needed repairs in their breeches. Discrimination is ruled out by both sides when employes return to work. Flint will not be another Madrid and industry will hum again...
...heard of February. Lord, how forlorn the little islands of ice do look! It seems as if they wait hopefully for some sudden chill to freeze them into their accustomed mass. The sky is bright and blue. Methinks much too much for a winter's morning. In my ears hum those pretty lines of Mr. Wordsworth...
They shall run like the lightnings.-Na-hum, 2 :4). After two hours and a quarter, Preacher Vhitelock said: "Let us pray." His listeners professed not to have been bored. To them the service was a notable event, the 13th annual Two-Hour Sermon, which Baptist Whitelock had introduced in Chelsea as a revival from Puritan times...
...small cocktail bar where daily waits a long succession of writers, supervisors, agents and technicians for decisive two-or three-minute interviews. Wallis checks every budget, red-penciling items he thinks too high. Models of every important set are carried in to be demonstrated to him. The mild, incessant hum of well-routined activity is occasionally broken by stormy story conferences. Producer Wallis may reject other men's ideas but he rarely enforces his own. His success as an executive rests on a shrewd instinct in selecting men. Under him, Warner Bros, have acquired a reputation for daring experiments...