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Word: hummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are the storm warnings, the stuff that produces upsets. Actually, there is little difference between the 1948 performances of the two teams. Both have enjoyed only ho-hum seasons...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: First Valpey Squad Favored to Whip Yale in 65th Annual Struggle Today | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Eliot had assembled his picture of the contemporary world in The Waste Land, which, like most of Eliot's earlier poetry, had the immediacy of a headline, the memorableness of a song that is easy to hum because it is reminiscent of other songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: 1,000 Lost Golf Balls | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Finally, the game itself came, and it was one of those ho-hum affairs which saw little fire or enthusiasm from either team...

Author: By Sam Spade, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

...Make No Mistake." With the postwar church drive to expand and modernize education facilities across the Dominion, things began to hum at Ottawa. A medical school was added in 1945, and $1,212,295 raised for a building to house it. The university also got a new rector, genial Father Jean-Charles Laframboise (French for the raspberry). No cloistered scholar, Le Père Recteur is ambitious for his school. Of the $250,000 grant the Ontario government gave his medical school last year he says: "It was not a grant; it was the first grant. Make no mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Father Raspberry's School | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...would go down in political history. It was as quiet as a snowfall and, like a snowfall, it covered everything. On Monday, a handful of reporters on Dewey's eighth floor saw little to report except serenity. But if they had listened carefully they might have heard the hum of wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: How He Did It | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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