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Word: hums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high time, thought State Representative Floyd L. Snyder, that the Missouri Waltz be established as Missouri's official state song. He introduced a bill to make it so. Then, to be sure all his fellow legislators could hum what they were voting for, he invited the orchestra of Missouri's Lincoln University (for Negroes) to swing through it for them. There was only one thing Snyder forgot: the lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Missouri's Song | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...trim-looking little Armenian, Mikoyan is an exception to the run of humorless Bolsheviks. He is happy-go-lucky, and he can tell a story. He likes to hum a tune, dance, drink. (He promised the Soviet people he would produce a good beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Businessman, Soviet Model | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

This was more than 80% of what Berlin's west sectors used to get by land before the Russians started their blockade; besides food and coal it included the other things that make a city hum: machinery and industrial raw materials. West Berliners now get 2,000 calories of food a day, 270 more than when Berlin was supplied by land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Holiday Special | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

When Queen Ingrid came on the air, she revealed that all her children have inherited their father's musical talent. "Even Anne-Marie," said the Queen, "has been able for fully a year to hum the tune of the trooping of the colors." The Queen told of her daily round of duties, adding: "However busy we may be, we always manage to be together at teatime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Royal Teatime | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...little disconcerting, for two reasons. First, the characters and plot revealed a lack of originality, as mentioned. Second, the difficulty of adjusting oneself to seeing the same actors, who only last week were so exciting as members of Shaw's Heartbreak family, reduced new to the hum-drum bickerings of Mr. Savory's Garth-Banders...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: George and Margaret | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

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