Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Escape. More than ever, in the stress & strain of war, people were reading to be entertained, to escape from their everyday worries. Reprints, marketed at 25? by newsstands and drugstores, remained the prime phenomenon of the boom. Mystery stories bulked steadily larger in the reprint publishers' output. And comic books far outsold the mysteries...
Treble Bob and Stedman. Change-ringing teams of virtuoso quality have been known to ring faultless sets of 21,000 changes over a period of twelve hours. But such feats are rare because of the enormous physical strain. There are four main methods of change ringing (differences are chiefly in the choice of the sequence of notes and combinations). To campanologists they are known as the 1) Grandsire, 2) Plain Bob, 3) Treble Bob and 4) Stedman. Alterations in the order of changes are indicated during the performance by one of the ringers, who acts as conductor...
...barreled, making a mystery not only of the killer but of the killed. Told in a series of flash backs narrated by snub-nosed Clifton Webb, in his first picture since 1924, it gives ample scope for a display of his suavely comical talent and puts only a slight strain on Gene Tierney's acting...
Months of jungle misery had made G.I.s in the China-Burma-India Theater a sensitive audience. Mere days of it also had their effect on some already sensitive big-name cinema stars. By last week the resulting strain was enough to rupture the CBI Theater's U.S.O. circuit, send sparks flying from New Delhi to Hollywood...
...Bell 450 new ear plugs that reduce the racket but let the human voice through when the riveting stops. Last week the new chief of the Bell plant, Colonel Carl Cover (rhymes with Dover), found that their use at Marietta had brought about a marked reduction in nerve strain and fatigue. What noise does come through the plug sounds like the dull beating of a heavy surf...