Word: hooper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There aren't many frills or fancy hooper-doopers among the Indians' plays, and straight power stuff from a single wing has been their forte. Out at the end posts they can brag about two snappy ball handlers from the basketball court, Glenn Knox and Al Vandeweghe. Both are veterans, and both will probably start today despite talk of leg injuries...
...same time, under wartime rules for selecting students to the Council, two men were last night appointed to fill vacancies created by departing Seniors. E. Thayer Drake '44 of Chatham, New Jersey and Winthrop House, and George R. Hooper '45 of La Grange, Illinois and Eliot House, have been chosen to serve one year terms...
Response to the President's speeches has followed a saw-toothed graph. Two days after Pearl Harbor the President's Hooper rating skyrocketed to an alltime high of 79.0. Last fortnight, when he spoke over as great a hookup to the International Student Assembly, his Hooper fell...
...Like the Crossley rating, Hooper's is based on a check of listeners by telephone: Hooper phones during a program, Crossley later. Crossley distributes calls by income groups; Hooper phones at random...
Franklin Roosevelt's Labor Day (anti-inflation) speech rolled up a Hooper rating* of 50.3 (or 37,362,400 adults), outstripping commercial radio's alltime high -Charlie McCarthy...