Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first glance, Book Dealer Alan Keen of Clifford's Inn, London, saw nothing particularly exciting about the old volume. It was simply one item from a new lot-a far-from-perfect 1550 copy of Edward Halle's Chronicle of England from Henry IV to Henry VIII. But when Alan Keen began to examine the book more closely that day in 1940, he found that some early reader had covered its margins with a most intriguing set of notations...
...other time and should not be connected with the Smoker, much as the author would like to. You state that rather than good fellowship, clique rubs elbow with clique. This would mean that Harvard is made up of a series of cliques something like city gangs. I find this item quite uncalled for! . . . You completely ignore the two hour entertainment program at which a majority enjoyed themselves, all save the "Puerto Rican faction" as Al Capp referred to them. As to the waiters "ruffling up" anybody, while they may have been slightly overzealous in performing their duty, they...
...Master was in his study, brooding. On the wall, the inter-room video screens glowed. The Master looked at one of the screens and smiled: Brown was hard at work in K-32. The bed was meticulously made--always a major item on the Inspector's list. Shoes were lined neatly under the bed. Ash trays gleamed from their places on the well-dusted shelves. Yes, the Master decided, Brown was a credit to the House. Of course, things had not been that way when he was an undergraduate, but then, hard times had come. The Master pulled a little...
Full Fury. Cole left much unsaid. He did not tell, for instance, what happened to the material blown from the great crater. Item: Did radioactive chunks of it sail through the stratosphere? He did not fully describe the heat radiation or the shock waves that must have traveled through the air and sea. He said nothing about the powerful gamma rays that the bomb must have released. But more revelations may be coming. "I hope," Cole said, "that within a few weeks the American people will be able to witness in reproduction [movie film] the full fury of a hydrogen...
...basis, thus hopes to win back some of the business lost to discount houses. The store will sell everything from TV sets to towels at bargain prices because of its low overhead, give shoppers a chance to save even more money (delivery cost ranges from $1 to $3 an item) by carrying their own purchases home...