Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board. But sewing machines are still what make Singer's business hum. A decade ago, competition from cheaper Japanese machines and technologically superior European machines such as Pfaff and Necchi had Singer breathing hard. But today Singer's American-made "Slant-O-Matic" has recaptured technological superiority, and the machines that the company makes in overseas plants to be sold in the U.S. compete with the Japanese in price. Singer now holds more than 40% of the U.S. sewing-machine market and is picking up another 2% each year. Abroad, where the fastest growth in sewing-machine sales...
...replace Phil 1, the department may allow students to take any of three introductory courses: Hum 5, Phil 75 ("The Conflict of Ideals in Modern Civilization"), or a new half-course in the "great issues and problems" in philosophical thought. The new course, Firth said might emphasize critical analysis more than Phil 1 did; during the 30 years the course was taught by Raphael Demos, Phil 1 used the historical approach to ancient and modern philosophy...
Firth also stated that next year the department may drop Phil 1, which until this Fall has been offered without interruption for 75 years. The course reading overlaps by at least 60 per cent that in Hum 5, one of the largest courses in the University and one which the department must also staff. Firth pointed out that the eight-man philosophy department is the smallest of its kind in any major U.S. college...
Seldom has Hong Kong's business been better. Big hotels such as the fustily genteel Peninsula and Repulse Bay are packed with tourists. The repair yards of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. hum with ships coming and going. Passengers crowd the Star Ferry Co. boats and the Peak Tramways' cable cars, which provide the most spectacular 10? rides in the world. China Light & Power Co. is adding four 60-megawatt turbines at a total cost of $34 million...
Math 1a with 468 enrolled continues high on the list in fourth position. It is followed by Hum 5 and Soc Sci 1, which regained its status as the most crowded lower level Soc Sci. Both courses enrolled 382 students...