Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apparently quite unrelated though interesting affairs have been brought under one news item: the opium evil and the recent tendency of Americans to offer large prizes. Former Controller Metz has gone on record as willing to give $100,000 to the man who invents synthetic opium. Strangely enough Mr. Metz thinks he can succeed where the ill-fated Opium Conference failed. Put cheap opium production into the hands of western scientists, argues the prize offer, and you eliminate the opium complex of the East...
...would be reorganized; that Government relations with the railways would be revised in such way as to increase revenue and decrease expenditure ; that the Treasury would be relieved of the necessity of floating short-term credits to keep the floating debt floating; that, in his opinion, the most important item of all was to restore public confidence at home and abroad...
...treatise on Latin Grammar. "Accedence Commene't," dated 1669, is the second item, a manual recalling Milton's school-mastering days and his interests in education...
When the cameras had been set up, the chairs placed, and the steps of the Widener Library marked off yesterday in preparation for the pictures of the Senior and Freshman classes, the setting was complete but for one item, the Senior class. For only a scant two score of Seniors came bashfully through the Yard, in newly donned caps and gowns to observe the time-honored custom of the picture. The others were deterred from attending by the noxious mists and the threatened rain...
...handicaps to which I allude is the falling off of immigrant remittances to Italy from her sons working on foreign soil. In the past, these remittances constituted a distinct factor in your invisible international balance. May I suggest that you try to offset the loss from this item by increasing legitimate income from American tourists, who should be encouraged on a broader and more practicable scale than ever before to come to Italy and prolong their visits here...