Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Qashqais plus Bakhtiaris and other tribesmen from the south teamed up with Kurds from the north, announced a tribal bloc which would have an influence far beyond its representation (probably 30 out of 136 seats) in the Majlis. Priority item on their program: to scuttle the Russian oil concession. When the election finally ended, Gavam could submit the Russian oil agreement with certain knowledge that it would be strongly opposed-which will suit him fine. He could sit back, finger his jade beads and chuckle-unless the neighbors across his northern border turned the heat on again...
...challenging item in the unfinished business of science is to find some connection between magnetism and gravitation. The universe is shot through & through with electromagnetism; gravitation is everywhere too. Physicists have long been convinced that the two must be related somehow, but try as they would (and the most talented have tried), they could establish no basic connecting...
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor, 33 sides, three albums). A re-issue of a fine performance in which sound and surface suffered slightly in the process; a worthy collector's item. Performance: good...
...President Alemán had won from Harry Truman a promise of help which was now figured to run to $100 million. The cost of implementing the Truman Doctrine in the next six to twelve months might reach between $2 and $4 billion. Still incalculable was the biggest potential item of all: further aid to Great Britain. British officials no longer debated whether they would need another loan, but only when they should...
...Cents a Dance, Love Me or Leave Me, Shine On, Harvest Moon). Her straightforward style is a far cry from the slick and silken whisperings of the younger generation's favorite song pluggers. But to their parents and their uncles and their aunts, Ruth Etting is still an item, as she proved in a comeback last March...