Word: itemize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ailment, until the mid-'30s were not sure they could recognize it. Diagnosis is made by i) symptoms, 2) testing a patient's blood, 3) finding the malarialike Toxoplasma parasite in the tissues of a dead patient. In the U.S., toxoplasmosis is still a medical collectors' item-a lethal rarity...
...Long-famed as an uninhibited collector of 1) the first engineering degree given a woman by the University of Wisconsin, 2) monkeys, 3) the lowdown, 4) U.S.-banked royalties on her best-selling The Soong Sisters, 5) Manila cigar ashes, Miss Hahn introduced a reporter to the most unconventional item in her Oriental collection: her two-year-old, Chinese-babbling daughter Carola...
Thus James Lincoln subjected himself to a very considerable financial risk. Item: he is now in the courts defying the Navy to renegotiate him out of $3,250,000 of 1942 "excess profits" (this is the first fullblown test yet of the renegotiation law). Item: he has also gone to court to contest a Treasury ruling that he overpaid...
From British women in war factories last summer came a swelling chorus of complaint: a lack of good corsets caused undue fatigue, spoiled dispositions, slackened morale, hindered production. The Government investigated, found corsets were only an item in a grave undercover situation...
...about 5,000 North-country fishermen and wholesale-house workers (who process, ice and ship fish) that is important money. To a protein-hungry America, the catch is an important dietary item. Two million pounds will go to the Army; chain food stores will get millions more. What is left will be frozen, salted or smoked...