Word: hums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plenty of Hum. In spite of such setbacks. Stoddard maintained his equilibrium. "You know." says he, "anybody who serves the total public is in the midst of life. The school superintendent does not live in a house by the side of the road; he's right smack in the middle of the road, and sometimes he gets bumped." Though bumped aplenty. Superintendent Stoddard kept his schools humming. He upped the annual budget from $90 million to $150 million, put through a school bond issue for $130 million. He has put up scores of new school buildings...
...Hum and strum...
Laced Martinis. Casino Royale poses an unlikely sounding situation and makes it hum with tension. British Agent Bond's job is to gamble against a corrupt French Communist trade union official at the baccarat table of a French casino until he breaks the Frenchman's bankroll and his power. He does, but five murders, a kidnaping, a grisly torture sequence and a suicide intervene before Bond can really call his mission accomplished. Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls. As for Bond, he might be Marlowe's younger brother except...
John D. Wild's Humanities 121 is a survey of contemporary movements of religious thought, with emphasis on the philosophical and theological issues between different groups. Hum, 121 meets in Burr...
Moving speedily past Symphony Hall, museums and medical centers, Vab began to hum an off-key Christmas carol softly to himself. Around him, cheerful Christmas displays glowed brightly in red and green. Vag was contented. You can really see a lot of Boston on a tour like this, he thought. He had been close to all the education in Boston, seen lots of really neat places. Soon Vag would hear the blaring street noises again, but now they would sound different because he knew the city, and its history, and its people...