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There are 16 bells, ranging from a metal monster of 13 tons to a woo rascal mere pounds. There should be 17 to fill up the set in the true Russian manner, but the fourth from the largest was found before their installation to be in a different key from the others, or a one inhabitant of the House put it, "even more out of key than the others," and so it was sent across the river to the Business School, where it now rings for the end of classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Professor Rings Lowell House Bells Since Imported Russian Ringer Drank Ink in Stillman | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Lukasiewicz: woo-feasz-evish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...last week to its ardently nurtured Popular Front was funny to many, painful to many. On the theory that democratic governments and peoples could be usefully linked in a world front against Fascism to save the imperiled U. S. S. R., Communists in 1935 postponed the revolution, began to woo. They fashioned a domestic program so broad that no liberally minded citizen or group could oppose all of it all the time, thus were able to claim vast support for "collective security." One stanch unit of the U. S. Front was (and is) the American League for Peace and Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Revised Reds | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...country even with vote-hungry politicians, and that Labor had better bestir itself politically. Leader Lewis now talked of forming "articulate groups of workers to declare themselves on social, political and economic affairs," and belligerently proclaimed: "Progressive Labor is not retreating." On his recommendation, his board proceeded to woo Youth and Farmers, tease the Aged by recommending $60-a-month Federal pensions for single oldsters over 60, $90 a month for married couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...even reach the standards that put over "Dodge City" and "Union Pacific." Nelson Eddy is given a fine build up as the tough hombre who K. O.'s Victor McLaglen and drinks every member of the graduating class of the Harvard Law School under the table with case--Woo!--Woo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

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