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Word: hums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balmy breeze began to hum a gentle funeral song for the winter of the wet, snowy flake yesterday, as heliomaniacs took to Harvard Yard in droves to bask in the first rays of the spring...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Wither the Snowy Flake?; Whence the Balmy Breeze? | 2/28/1976 | See Source »

...mother was used to the Beatles. She even found parts of Bob Dylan's New Morning "nice" and was no longer aurally traumatized by the Rolling Stones. I didn't play her George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord," but if I had it might have induced her to hum. Rock was in desperate straits. The only thing that could turn her stomach was the cover-photo of Alladin Sane featuring David Bowie coiffed, made-up and naked. She thought the music was disgusting, too. I listened to a lot of Bowie that year...

Author: By Brad Collins, | Title: David Bowie and Falling Glitter | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

...lately, Section 18 (except for a recently inspired Harvard band) has been about as funny as a Hum 103 section meeting, and about as inspiring as lunch in the Union...

Author: By Williame Stedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 2/25/1976 | See Source »

Other classes in which the number of students subscribing exceeded expectations by a large amount include Hum 103, in which 800 students, 200 more than predicted, are expected to take the course, and Statistics 102, where 100 students signed up instead of the expected...

Author: By Mark D. Stegall, | Title: Professors Blame Crowding On Limited Course Options | 2/14/1976 | See Source »

...spiritual occasion. It was heavily advertised in advance by posters bearing the words "BUTTFUCK '74" and a picture of Yo Mo Dobro Jo, billed as a 19 year-old perfect asshole; beneath Yo Mo Dobro Jo, who was seated in something like a lotus position, was the inscription "Hum Tits to Yo Mo Dobro Jo." The poster aroused the ire of local residents and administrators but, a Buttfuck says, "we persuaded them that it would only be a nice, fun, kinky party...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: God and Bladderball At Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

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