Word: woos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in the field it will not hurt you to take Geology 1. Even if it does not stimulate your interest enough to woo you into the field, a year with the genial Kirtley Mather should prove entertaining as well as the inevitable instructive. The course is one of those that is recommended so that the non-scientific student can say that he has had a science course, but this is a case of academic license. The material is well-organized and the lab work is easy. If you're gunning for a good mark, though, and really do intend...
...Chapel Hill, on the comely campus of University of North Carolina, dashing young South American caballeros last week politely lifted their hats to passing coeds and saluted them with the words: "Let's pitch a little woo." The coeds responded: "Hey" (North Carolinian for Hello). All in fun, the South Americans were busy practicing the promotion of hemisphere solidarity...
...woo-chest provided by Congress, President Pierson had lent almost $232,000,000 to Latin America. How much of this the Export-Import would see again was problematical. That U. S. manufacturers would benefit was certain. For Pierson had tied a string to most of the latest loans; with few exceptions, they provide that the money is to be spent in the U. S. Last week the exceptions began to cause trouble...
Elsewhere in Latin America, Pierson either pitched a better brand of woo or had less opposition. Other loans to date...
...dialog is as seasoned as the film's producer, Cecil B. DeMille, who was turning out its jerky ancestors in 1913. Veteran cinemaddicts will not be fooled into forgetting its parentage by either sound or Technicolor when they hear the half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine...