Word: hums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husky new schoolmaster who came to them one day in the 1830s. It was true, as one pupil later recalled, that young Walt Whitman was "always musin' an' writin', 'stead of tending to his proper dooties." Yet he seemed to love children ("what a hum of little voices! . . . How pleasant . . . How healthful!"), and children seemed to love him. He never used the rod on them, knew how to liven their lessons with poems and games...
...scientist and onetime Ohio high-school principal named Grayson L. Kirk, who arrived at Morningside Heights as an associate professor of government only ten years ago. At Columbia, Grayson Kirk soon showed that he was a first-class administrator as well as teacher, with a talent for making things hum. He threw himself into the work of the Academy of Political Science, headed Columbia's Institute of European Studies. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation staff at Dumbarton Oaks and helped set up the U.N. Security Council at San Francisco. By 1949, he had so impressed...
...Line Shudder. Bob Doherty was impressed with Tech, but he was not a man to be easily satisfied. Over the next 14 years he made Tech hum. He raised $4,000,000 to begin the first building program the school had had in years. He boosted the endowment from $17 to $30 million, tripled the size of the library, upped the number of full-time students two-thirds. Instead of a mere 27 advanced degrees a year, Carnegie Tech was soon giving...
...Queen Elizabeth, in a fur-trimmed coat, stood in the drizzle to tell the crowd: "This mighty scheme [will send] new strength surging into the very arteries of Scotland's being." Then she pulled the lever that set the Loch Sloy power plant in operation. As the rhythmic hum of generators signaled the first current, bagpipes skirled...
...Middle Way. In Belfast, Northern Ireland, 50 girls who quit work because the boss would not let them sing on the job went back when he agreed to let them hum...