Word: coopered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there evergreens in the South, oaks in the North? Botanist William Spinner Cooper of the University of Minnesota studied fossil tree pollens in peat, concluded that "in America the climate following the glacial epoch was warm and dry, with a return to a cooler moister climate during the last few thousand years." Thus the cone-bearing evergreens of the Southern U.S. are relics of the glacial invasion (which halted at the Ohio River), and the North's oaks and other hardwoods are relics of the warm postglacial period...
Meanwhile, in six years, Charleston's Maybank has generated enough power from Santee-Cooper to bring his ship into Washington...
...years ago a small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
South Carolina's little TVA was originally planned to cost $37,500,000. It has since expanded into a $57,000,000 project. When it goes into operation around Dec. 1 the Santee-Cooper development will provide public power as far north as Raleigh, as far south as Jacksonville. It will control flood waters in the sleepy swamps along the Santee that once were rich rice plantations, are now desolate hunting and fishing preserves...
Sergeant York (Gary Cooper, Joan Leslie, Margaret Wycherly, Walter Brennan; TIME...