Word: hummingly
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...prairies, over ragged mountains, through black tunnels, the silver gray wires hum from pole to pole, as they streak their messages across the country. Under great lakes of cold water, across rivers, and rolling on the bottom of black oceans, the dirty, slimy cables tremble with the news they carry to foreign lands. The air is alive with wave lengths, criss-crossed a thousand-fold...
First, such action will relieve the taxation burden, thereby releasing purchasing power, and start the wheels of industry to humming. Second, then Liberty Bond owners, instead of coupon-clipping, will help make the wheels hum faster. Third, the Liberty Bond owners are heavy taxpayers. A cancellation of Government obligations would lighten their tax burdens...
...take our Advertising Club and make it hum...
...confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness the shouting workmen build Sotstroy. The babel of their confusion will be subdued by no primeval stillness but by their machinery's steady hum...
...this being true, Dr. Thomson proposes: "To organize an electro-magnetic 'hummer' which, at small expense of energy, can spread over a large space the peculiar hum, and attract the males; perhaps also repelling the females. Various ways of trapping the males may be suggested, as they need not be desiccated or cooked to get rid of them...