Word: hums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then things began to hum. The great Lamaque and Sigma mines were discovered (1939 aggregate production value: nearly $7,000,000). Get-rich-quickers swarmed northward to pick up the nuggets in the wilderness. They stayed because the stories were not too far wrong...
...done to China's cities and countryside. Canton was all but moribund. Shanghai's masses were desperately hungry; 1,500,000 of her workers were jobless, and 20,000 prostitutes prowled her streets. But Shanghai still had her factories; once their wheels rolled, the metropolis would hum again and Shanghai might well be the mirror of the nation's revival...
Said Calcutta: "Hum Calcutta se bolte hein Calcutta calling...
...never heard a song upon the lips of my mother. I never even heard her hum a tune. . . . She was a confusing mixture of sternness, gentleness, and strength of will and purpose. She had borne twelve children, and had buried three of them. When the harvest required it, she had taken her place in the field. She had planted and tended the vegetable garden. She had spun the cloth, and had made the clothes which my father, my sisters . . . and I wore...
Spring Drives. In Salina, Kans., WAC Lieut. Linda Barnes drove her car to a garage, found the trouble was simply a bird's nest and three eggs on the motor block. In Los Angeles, Jessie Sachs's motor continued to hum after the ignition was turned off; under the hood was a busy swarm of bees...