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Word: hummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...over the top! I can't any more, the snow is too deep. Deep and heavy. The metal freezes to my fingers. No, it is hot, it burns, it burns them right off. I must hold on tight. Tighter. Now it is all still. Not a sound. Just a hum, the hum of silence. On and on. I don't hear any more. I don't see any more. I can't any more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

...nerves of every living thing in Anatolia vibrated like taut catgut to the first, subaudible, microseismic music of an impending earthquake. The slow vibration became a horrible hum, and grew, like the sound of approaching bombers. Then the shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: 16 Miles Under | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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