Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from it. Firing was to stop when the commission arrived at the front. A twelve-day truce was to be extended again & again as required. Armistice begins when the armies withdraw to their assigned positions, begin to demobilize to 5,000 men apiece, while the neutral commission patrols the strip between. Meanwhile, under the eye of the neutral peace conference, Bolivia and Paraguay will try again to settle their territorial argument by talk. Assuming that they fail again, the controversy will automatically go for arbitration to the World Court...
Opened in 1912, Muskegon's art gallery was named in honor of that Medici of Muskegon, the late Charles Henry Hackley who left $150,000 in 1905 for it. A lumber tycoon who at one time used to strip 30,000,000 feet of timber a year from Michigan woods, he dearly loved Muskegon, also gave the town a public library, an endowment fund, a manual training school, a hospital, a public park dotted with statuary. The Hackley Gallery has only recently begun to develop. Besides the Curry Tornado, it owns a Whistler, a Hogarth, a Blakelock, many good...
...Chicago and Detroit have closeted mysterious goings-on. Last March the result of this secret business first showed in the pages of the Chicago Tribune. Last month it appeared in Hearst's Detroit Times. Last week it landed in the Detroit Free Press. The secret: sharp "stop-action" strip pictures of fast-moving objects. Each newspaper was working with its own camera invention, was still secretive about details. But enough facts had leaked out to indicate that a new action-picture vogue was about to spread through the U. S. Press...
Chicago Tribune first jolted its readers with remarkably clear continuity pictures of Golden Gloves boxers in action, followed with a strip of Pitcher Dizzy Dean from windup to finish. Cameraddicts knew that no ordinary motion picture film could produce such distinct "stills." The Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...
...time of his election, 43 of his 63 years had been spent in the pursuit of politics, for by special dispensation (known in Texas as "removal of disabilities") he ran for county attorney at the age of 20. For 29 years he had represented in Congress a strip of semidesert along the Rio Grande border...