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Word: itemize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pick out the item which violates a positive rule or characteristic of the other five: adjacent, conform, deprive, liken, oblivious, prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Santa Claus. Since then the price situation had worsened. So had the international outlook. Doug Abbott had toughened with the times. He was no longer a patient listener. Many a time in budget conferences he cut short advisers with a brusque yes or no and hurried to the next item. Even with colleagues of Cabinet rank he had lost the habit of turning aside importunities with easy banter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Tough to Take | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...always a little skeptical of the new faces that keep turning up on the newsstand from month to month but one of our Massachusetts Avenue operators happened upon an item just the other day that deserves to be noised about. The issue in question runs to 52 pages, with covers, and up and down the left side of the front cover is a string of letters from which we deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 5/18/1948 | See Source »

This is the second time around the Bow Street della for the metropolitan weekly. It last achieved the doubtful distinction of a Poon parody in 1939, when the issue went through four fast editions to become a collector's item...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post Office Clears 'Poonsters' Second 'New Yorker' Parody | 5/13/1948 | See Source »

Pick out the item which violates a positive rule or characteristic of the other five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best by Test | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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