Word: item
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elman puts on his radio sale in a Manhattan theater, with an invited audience of well-heeled collectors and dealers. He allows the studio audience about one minute to bid on each item, then invites listeners to top the studio offers by mail...
...honestly think that the most decent job on the networks is done by that old kitten-ball player, Lowell Thomas. He at least keeps calm. His stuff seems to have been carefully edited. He helps his audiences by saying, "This is significant," or "Here is an item which I have my doubts about...
...Polignac of France's famed champagne family, Pommery (she married into it; her American mother married Le Petit Parisien's publisher), arrived in the U.S. on a Red Cross hunt for dental supplies, posed with a cluster of store teeth that was something new in costume jewelry. Item on her shopping list: four million false teeth...
They began by buying the printing plant of the defunct Brighton, Mass. Item for $5,500. John Dos Passos, anxious to encourage both the ambitions of the ex-G.I.s and the literary future of New England, promised them a piece on "What's Wrong in New England." Price: a $10 share of stock, a dinner and two beers. For another $10 share of stock, no dinner and no beers, they got Sinclair Lewis to promise an article on New England's writers...
Phenomenon in a Pipe. Radar enthusiasts have suggested many other uses, from controlling traffic at airports to studying the speed of high-flying birds. But to physicists, radar is only an item in the vast possibilities opened by the discovery of microwaves...