Search Details

Word: humse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

If you leave an ear open idly in Cambridge today, somebody is going to sell you a piece of a musical venture. The air hums with propaganda about symphony orchestras, string quartets, singers, wire-recording devices, and the like. It therefore came as a surprise to learn the other day...

Author: By Martin P. Mayer, | Title: The Music Box | 10/3/1946 | See Source »

Those who feel that 1917 saw zenith of recorded jazz will be pleased to hear that a member of the original Dixieland Jazz Band, one Tony Spargo (ne Sparbaro) has drunk the fountain of youth and gleaned strength enough therefrom to make another record. The anachronistic session took place under...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz, | Title: Jazz | 9/27/1946 | See Source »

Peiping hums with rumors of Palus (Eighth Route Army soldiers) roistering in the streets in comradely association with Red Army soldiers; of Chinese Communist soldiers from Shantung and Hopeh boasting of Japanese rifles, Japanese ammunition lifted from the stockpiles while the Russian guards conveniently looked the other way. Russians are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Month of Decision | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

On the rue d Ayen in bedraggled St. Germain, France, stands a bright, pink, three-story schoolhouse. In its library are $25,000 worth of books. Its music room has an electric phonograph and a big collection of classical records. Its basement hums with lathes and its upper floors are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Arts of Peace | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Britons learned for the first time last week of the Guy Fawkes Club (officially, the Westminster Munitions Unit). For more than two years some 150 wives of Ministers, M.P.s, clerks of the Lords and Commons, cleaners, custodians and councilors have been making weapons of war in the massive vaults beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Guy Fawkes Club | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

Previous | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | Next