Word: hums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer room is just down the hall from the plate stacks, in fact. The instruments' hum, not completely muffled by the heavy metal-cased door, grows louder as you approach. Inside, the maze of complex machinery makes the room vibrate. Arny Epstein, one of the researchers working on the HEAO-A3 satellite experiment, tries to make the names charts and computers comprehensible. He runs through the basics of his work in a matter-of-fact tone. Then he grins: "Now I'll show you something." He sits down in front of a TV screen hooked up to a typewriter keyboard...
...number four singles tilt had the makings of a super match, but Rita Funaro added a ho-hum effect when, down 4-0 in the frist set, she proceeded to take twelve consecutive games...
John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus and the lecturer in Hum 103, said yesterday that his course is popular because the section people are "marvelous" and the subject matter is inherently interesting...
Listen. Between the clicks of the taxi meter and quiet complaint of a car engine, the residual hum of music made by machines reminds you that you went to 15 Lansdowne Street, danced, drank, had a dashing good time. The hum is softer than anything you will hear
...terminal monitor has gone off with his date and most of the students are gathering up their notebooks and leaving. Silence pervades the room now. Only the light tapping of fingers on the terminal keys and the hum of a fan can be heard. There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...