Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama, the U.S. cruiser Nashville and the gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the U.S. control over a ten-mile strip of land that was to become the Canal Zone...
Father Macelwane discovered the air vibrations ten years ago when testing a colleague's theory that small tremors in the earth (microseisms) are caused by changes in the atmosphere. He built an oversized barometer which makes a wiggly line on a strip of paper to indicate minute variations of air pressure. Sometimes, he found, the line was almost straight. Then a "microbarographic storm" would sweep across St. Louis. For hours or even days, the line would jump up and down in jagged peaks and valleys. The mysterious little waves seemed to have no immediate connection with weather changes, wind...
...steamer service plying between New York and Fall River, which ceased operations in 1937. Things of grandeur in their prime, in their latter days the old boats still aroused the affectionate exasperation of a large public. One frequent passenger cracked that the Priscilla was held together by the strip of red carpet in her main saloon...
Because of such problems, the Express also decided that Canyon and his jive talking crew had to go; Steve & Co. vanished from the Express without so much as a waggle of their wings. Steve's passing gave a clue to the differences between U.S. and British comic-strip tastes. Blondie is a fixture, in the Daily Graphic. Said an editor: "It never gets beyond the trifling happenings that go on in everyone's life all over the world." Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician and King of the Royal Mounted have been accepted because they are easily understood...
...strip has ever matched the pulling power of British Cartoonist Norman Pett's Jane (see cut), the uninhibited comic-stripper who got her start during the war by entrancing British troops, as a sort of Miss Lace without lace or much of anything else. Jane manages to get down to bra and panties at least once a week in London's tabloid Daily Mirror. Fleet Street agrees that she is the only strip that actually boosts a paper's sales. Yet Jane flopped in the U.S. last year: "I'm afraid," said a British syndicate salesman...