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Word: stripping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physician, lawyer, author, explorer, who worked on plagues in India, Burma, Arabia, China, Latin America, many another far-flung frontier. Dr. Aughinbaugh proposed that the News print a daily anecdote from his long and adventurous career. Editor Patterson liked the idea, decided to try it. For a month the strip ran along with fairly typical reminiscences of a traveled medical man. Then, last week, it burst out with an extraordinary tale of how Burma's White Elephant was fed, during the rule of King Thebaw. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Drone's Progress | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...best woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when she was defeated in the Olympics. Last week, fencing for the U. S. indoor title for the first time, she had won all her previous bouts with almost ridiculous ease. The two women stepped onto the black strip of linoleum, laid across the centre of the square, silver-walled room in a sudden, tense silence. Miss Mayer wore her usual fencing costume, a short white dress. Miss Lloyd, in a white jacket and black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Like Cyrano | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill rallied to the teachers' defense with a statement that manic-depressives and other neurotics often made brilliant teachers. In the midst of the furor police picked up a high school substitute instructor in Brooklyn, charged her with attempting to strip in a subway station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crazy Teachers | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Died. John Coleman Terry, 53, cinemanimator, comic strip artist, brother and onetime associate of Producer Paul Terry who created "Aesop's Film Fables" (see above); of kidney disease; in Coral Gables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 12, 1934 | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Inconspicuous, taciturn about his marital affairs, Blue Boy has left a model for many a cinemactor from whom he was protected in life (except for Will Rogers) by a four-foot fence of substantial construction. He never wangled a city deal or produced a strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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