Word: hums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sufferer. Jeremiah, according to Author Paterson, "was the most hum,an of all the prophets, and at the same time the most Christ-like." Commanded by Jehovah to take no wife, Jeremiah reveals himself in his writings as a lonely and humble man whose life was torn between two loves, "my people" and "my God." Writes Paterson: "The other prophets of the Old Testament seem to stand at the side of God and hurl their words of doom down upon the people, but Jeremiah seems to stand between the people and God and gather to his own bosom...
...Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carters. It also brought to Broadway, possibly for the first time since 1939, those dedicated spirits, those Haute-Savoyards, for whom G. & S. is not a production but a rite. For seven weeks, with a new opera every Monday, they might chirrup, gurgle, hum, keep an eye out for heresy...
...lobby of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, people stopped to stare. With no hum, no click and no whir, a machine that looked like a cross between a radio and a teletype was rolling out a pony-size newspaper page. Under the headline MICHAEL I ABDICATES, it printed a picture of Michael and Princess Anne (see FOREIGN NEWS). The dinky paper was the maiden issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer's facsimile edition...
Gratifying Hum. To Britons, winning few victories in the factories and the mines, the battle of the shipyards was a triumph. Since the war British yards, still operated under private enterprise (they are not on the Labor Party's list for socialization), have turned out 1,959,000 gross tons of merchant shipping-more than the rest of the world combined. They received $360 million in foreign orders, not counting orders from the Dominions. And the British merchant marine, which lost two-thirds of its tonnage in the war, was back up to 18,070,000 gross tons last...
...thing for the Democratic nomination in 1948, the nation's cartoonists turned their pens on the nation's best political show-the scramble for the Republican nomination. Convention time was still ten months off. But in country clubs and barrooms, from picnic grounds and hotel rooms, the hum of politicking rose above the land as candidates angled for delegates...