Word: strip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine, Skinner explained, is operated by the student. When a lever is pushed, a sentence in English to be translated appears. The student writes his own translation on a strip of paper which slides under a piece of glass, so that the student can see, but not change his answer. Then, the correct translation appears...
...Says Britannus to Cleopatra in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra: "In war we stain our bodies blue; so that though our enemies may strip us of our clothes and our lives, they cannot strip us of our respectability...
From the moment Stevenson's little air fleet touched down on a grass strip at Worthington, just north of the Iowa border, his campaign went well. The weather was mostly bright, the small-town audiences attentive, generous (slipping up to $400 a meeting into collection cans labeled "The Ezra Taft Benson Retirement Fund") and unexpectedly large, e.g., Stevenson drew 2,500 in Montevideo...
Since last November and at least through next month, Cartoonist Gray is devoting the strip to a "thorough and penetrating analysis" of teen-age violence. Editors and parents find the story line about Annie's adventures among street hoodlums a little too authentic for comfort. Last week the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Columbus' Ohio State Journal both suspended Annie until she finds better companions. Explained the morning Globe-Democrat on its front page: "Annie . . . features muggings, switchblade knives and language that we think does not fit into [this] type of newspaper." Half a dozen other dailies from...
...creator is Canadian-born Artist Winslow Mortimer, 36, who lives in Carmel, N.Y., collects guns, goes to Drew Methodist Church. He is aided by Hartzell Spence, son of a Methodist minister, who wrote One Foot in Heaven, and who serves as idea man and general consultant for the strip. Between them the two have a problem as old as literature -how to make the good as interesting...