Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Midsummer Night's Dream is the work of Daniel Seltzer's Hum 105 class, and there is a temptation to assign it a grade. Let it go as a disappointment, but not a failure...
...scholar in English philology, Bond teaches Hum 122, "History of the Book," and English 296, "Description and Analytic Bibliography...
...march cut such a vast swath, a widespread (and individually selfish) safari of as many as 500 relic collectors can be found crisscrossing carefully over the once bloodied ground. Each wears earphones connected to a long-handled ground-sweeper disk, powered by transistor batteries, which transmits a constant hum through the earphones. Whenever it finds metal, there is a sudden crescendo to the hum, the signal to dig for an antique that may be anywhere from an inch to 6 ft. down, since little of any value is left on the surface any more...
...seasoned searchers, the antagonism of a landowner is almost as sure a tip-off as a sudden hum from his detector. "When I ask a farmer if we can dig on his land and he says yes, I don't even take the detector out of the car," says Dickey. "But if he says, 'Hell, no,' then I know the place is loaded...
...asked, and it often is: what draws them, the boys with the pinched faces and the girls with little fat pink stars for hands? The Square on Saturday night is the more tumultuous aspect of hum drum. A more intense, violent and glanduar aspect of quiet lives. When they were eight, there was the mechanical horse outside the Wellington Circle Woolworth's, the collection of baseball cards to be flipped down alleys blown clean by the spring wind...