Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another item on the Cedar Hill agenda will be the physical education requirement, abolished last fall. Members of the College physical education staff are currently compiling statistics on student participation in athletics this year as compared with past years...
...findings: the barrel had been filled with a white compound substance; it was not radioactive and never had been. "We spent a lot of money doing it," said an AEC official last week. "But we run down every lead." The case of the fishermen's barrel is an item in a deepening AEC problem. In the U.S. are 6,000 Government and private institutions using radioactive isotopes...
Trying to fit these clues and hints into largely unknown lives of unknown men requires great care and precision. Where each item is found will tell when in time it was last used. What objects it is near may give an indication of its use. To get all the information he can from the objects that do turn up, the archaeologist must uncover them slowly and methodically, and then exercise a combination of induction and educated guessing...
When an artifact appears, its position is measured. The object is then removed by hand--or, in the case of a fragile item, with a dental extractor--and tossed into a basket with three compartments: for bones, for flint, and for river stones and pebbles. The stones go to a geologist, the bones to a paleontologist, and the flint to an archaeologist. The pale botanist takes a sample of dirt from eastrata, which he centrifuges to recover the pollen grains of plants which grad around the rock shelter thousands years...
...Stare noted the considerable amount of time and planning involved in conducting dietry studies under the supervision of the Nutrition Committee. Food must be weighed as it is served, waste must be measured, and the nutrient content of each item must be computed...