Word: strip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Cartoonist E. C. Segar, who created the comic strip character, "Popeye the Sailor", was near death tonight as a result of a liver ailment...
Long Island. The shrieking vortex of the storm first hit Long Island between Babylon and Patchogue where the barometer reached an all-time low for that area, 27.95 in. At summer resorts on the long strip of sand dunes separating the ocean from Great South, Moriches and Shinnecock Bays, the hurricane swept away everything not securely anchored including all wind-measuring instruments...
...full swing last week, the 1938 Netherlands war games were, as usual, based on the problem "An orderly retreat from the German frontier and the taking up of positions on a new 'waterline' "-a strip of country that can be submerged within a few hours by opening strategic floodgates...
Missouri Legend (by Elizabeth B. Ginty; produced by Guthrie McClintic in association with Max Gordon), half a clowning comic strip, half a romantic daguerreotype, is based on the life of Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
...world title. One was bespectacled George Edward Thomas Eyston, 41-year-old retired British Army captain, the defending champion. The other was moon-faced John Cobb, 37-year-old London fur broker, the challenger. Over Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, considered the most satisfactory auto-racing strip in the world,* the two Englishmen, with no more fanfare than two moppets sliding down a hill to see who could go farther, took turns to see who could come closer to traveling six miles a minute-and incidentally break the world's land-speed record of 311 miles an hour...