Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result is a phonetic "alphabet" showing the timing, the pitch, the overtones, even the delicate emphasis of each spoken sound. The streaks and blotches near the top of the strip represent the high-pitched elements; those near the bottom, the low-pitched. A trained eye can easily read this "visible speech...
...Even comic-strip characters had entered the debate. Isolationist Orphan Annie complained that "international gangsters" aided by "politicians" had stolen Daddy Warbucks' atomic secrets, and Saddlesoap Jones in Smilin' Jack bought a B-29 and two atomic bombs from the government to blast a hurricane (see cuts...
Sinclair Lewis, whose new Cass Timberlane is a very best seller, took a look around and happily noted a "growth of literary consciousness," countered with the gloomy observation that "the best seller of today has little influence compared with the comic strip...
...famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter of a fraternizing English crusader and his Grecian love. Author Costain's romantic actors are hardly more three-dimensional than characters in a high-grade comic strip, but the elaborate 13th-Century stage sets are well painted...
Actually the aim of the Government is not to strip stockholders of their wealth. Socialists believe that the Bank of England helped to wreck the 1931 Labor Government by holding back credit. They want to guard against this by controlling the bank so that credit will be available for nationalization of industries. A longtime bank employe summed up: "Won't make no difference, so long as we get paid on Friday...