Word: agendum
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...phenomenon occurs most often nowadays within the strata stratum of people concerned with newspapers, magazines, television and radio-in a word, media. Trouble is, the media 4s are not singular; 4t-4s-they are plural, as 4s-are candelabra. According to this criteria criterion, -the first thing on the agendum agenda should be to call a halt to all of -this-these errata...
...Washington last week, chief endeavor of the 3,001 delegates to the Continental Congress seemed to be to see who could carry the most flowers. One Washington florist's business increased 300% during their stay. Principal agendum at the Congress was rostrum-climbing. To help them avoid tripping over themselves, their long skirts and their flowers, delegates had a corps of debutante pages. Principal agendum of the pages standing at the rostrum steps was to lift the train of each ascending delegate with combined dexterity, good timing and discretion. From inspecting each other's clothes, writing messages...
...London newspapers, acquainted themselves with the facts of the conversations that were supposed to be taking place in Paris. After astonishment had worn off, the capital received the conference news frigidly. France would want a large shoal of submarines. They were indispensable to her national security. But a principal agendum of the conference is the limitation of submarines. Hence the French hostility...
...next most important agendum was the division of reparations so far received, a matter complicated by profits derived from the Ruhr occupation, seizures made, deliveries in kind received...
...recently concluded treaty between China and Russia (TIME, June 9) undoubtedly established the true status of Mongolia, as that was the outstanding agendum in the protracted conference at Peking. The terms of the treaty have, however, not yet been published...