Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia's 164,000,000. Last week the bee smartly stung the bear, with the most ambitious Government decree in history. It divided all Russia into three Zones. Zone No. 1 includes all Russia's ticklish spots: the big cities, big industrial centres, a 62-mi. strip along the western border and the chief cities along the eastern border. In these, the hide and the vital organs of Russia, only certified loyalists may live. "Undesirable'' Russians must move out. They may be allowed to settle in Zone No. 2, which includes all other cities and industrial...
Plain were the beauties of this arrangement. It would insulate Russia from the world with a strip of Russians of purest ray serene. It would scatter masses of ordinary Russians where their "lack of cooperation" could do the least harm. It would provide a citizen army at the border in case...
There are a number of places which the University could well utilize as parking space, besides the present site behind the Business School. Some of the long strip of Corporation property on either side of the river, or of the lots beyond Peabody Museum and the Film Foundation, might economically be made over for the purpose, with nominal levies on the users. The University would in this way be doing its students and the police a service, and would forestall any more of such dubious go-getting as the garages have been accused...
...begin with, the play is not named after the central character of the piece. Central character is Stephen Rolf, a prolix worthy who lives and paints on Cape Cod and goes about in a windbreaker. His brother, sensitive Karl, is the cartoonist of the family, having created a comic strip character named "Muggs," who always is defeated in the last picture...
...sabre and the epee are warlike weapons, too unwieldy for women to handle. The lady fencers who attacked each other last week on the strips of the New York Fencers Club did it with light foils, buttoned at the tip. Last year's champion, Dorothy Locke of the Salle d'Armes Vince, lost her bout in the semi-final strip against Amy von Hansa, a blonde from the German-American Athletic Club, but both of them qualified, with Marion Lloyd and Mrs. Norman Taylor Jr., for the final round-robin...