Word: hummed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Army's Peeping Toms confirmed the theory (TIME, April 16, 1945) that the girl mosquito's hum is sexual advertising. With tuning forks of the proper frequency, they posed as susceptible females, got chased by mosquito males...
...responded best to a mating call of 350-750 vibrations per second; Anopheles preferred a lower range (320-480). In spite of overlapping of ranges, no male made passes at a female of the wrong species. The Army's conclusion: a female mosquito must have other attractions than hum...
...altitude. Your ears are popping, and the gas belches out of your throat. At 40,000 feet you feel small and high. Mountains are wrinkles in green-and-brown cloth, and cities are patches of ragged wire screen. The upper altitudes are silent except for the slight singing hum of the whirling rotor behind...
...result ranges from ho-hum when Royalty seeks laughs by bellowing "Shut up," to ha-ha when Hope tries on the mannerisms of a grand seigneur. Hope is a barber forced, for reasons too tortuous to relate, to impersonate the first swordsman and ladykiller of France. He is also supposed to marry the Spanish Infanta (Marjorie Reynolds), though he loves a scullery maid (Joan Caulfield...
...Behind the massive walls, a blizzard of darting neutrons was smashing atomic nuclei, creating hundreds of radioactive isotopes so "hot" that invisible specks of them could kill. All around were vigilant Geiger counters ready to raise the alarm if too much radiation leaked. But the only sound was the hum of the ventilating system carrying deadly gases up the stack...