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Word: hummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shape continually. The ground rolls like an ocean swell. The simplest tasks become all but impossible. Victims are unable to sew without making their hand a pin cushion, to peel a potato without cutting it in half, to crack an egg without smashing it. The ears ring and hum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Labyrinthine Way | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...hum. I sit at my desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof." See FOREIGN NEWS, The Wanted American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 31, 1960 | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...Missionary Albert Schweitzer at Lambarene in Gabon on Africa's West Coast might help him sort things out. There the work was backbreaking, but he loved the life; month after month he helped clear jungle thickets and unloaded the heavy supplies that arrived by boat. "Hi ho. ho hum, here I am in the middle of Africa," Mark wrote his mother exultantly, typing out a letter on his portable. "I sit at my desk with my mongrel dog at my left foot, and Ooka, my pet chimpanzee, playing with my shoelaces. A goat is walking on the roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wanted American | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

Even with the five half-units of Hum and Comp Lit courses included, the 1960-61 total of 13 is the smallest since the 20 in 1956, and falls far below the figure of 23 reached is both...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Catalogue Shows Drop in Number Of Eng. Courses | 10/19/1960 | See Source »

...games, a surprisingly strong Navy beat Southern Methodist, 26-7; Penn State gave Army its first loss, 27-16; Missouri routed the Air Force, 34-8; North Carolina beat tottering Notre Dame, 12-7; and Syracuse, still below its potential despite its top ranking, barely got past ho-hum Holy Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 17, 1960 | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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