Word: humming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hum! yawns the Freshman out of pure joy of yawning. College is so delightfully boring after the ardors and endurances of school life. Also, he cannot think of anything else...
...Sophomore hearing him, though feeling the same way entirely, says "Hum-ho!" to establish his mental superiority. For "Hum-ho!" is an original statement whereas "Ho-hum!" would merely be repeating a Freshman, and a Sophomore must never do that unless he does it consistently--that is, becomes a Freshman for a second time...
...popular young ex-soldier in the employ of Cordways Ltd, has been discharged for repeated drunkenness, Sympathy for the difficulties that the ex-service man experiences in settling down to the hum-drum life of the workingman, impels the authorities of the firm to give the man another chance, John Cordways the head of the Board of Directors, who takes an interest in the minor transactions of the business quite surprising in such a great captain of industry, when reviewing the case refuses to be lenient and the man is definitely dismissed. Everybody from John's flancee, Lady Clarissa...
...reach rather than to set our hearts on something with the odds against us a thousand to one? One discouragement, even after striving for the unattainable is a defeat and several such defeats develop the feeling, "I have not made good". When this is reached, life holds little but hum-drum for the average man. On the other hand, when life is planned as a series of steps, the conquering of each step is a victory and the individual is led on, spurred and encouraged to conquer the next step. If a series of steps is left out of your...
...Commander Grieve in their Sopwith machine. Flinging away their landing carriage and deliberately avoiding steamship lanes, they undertook a voyage, as perilous as any since the days of Columbus and Cabot. What a continuous flight of twenty hours must mean is clear to anyone who has spent with the hum of engines throbbing in his ears, even three hours in the air. Our wonder increases when we consider that this longest flight yet attempted was made in a plane with only one engine, little chance of floating if forced to descend, still less of being picked up, and a safe...