Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...
...Robert Browning's work the rarest item shown is a copy of the book "Pauline," privately printed by the author in 1833. Later, Browning regretted this book and destroyed all but a few copies...
Also on the petition is the item: "That the President of the Student Council and a person selected by the Committee for Electoral Reform constitute a committee of two to appoint a temporary chairman of the convention to preside until the convention shall elect a chairman...
...John Lewis and the steelmasters have proclaimed the indivisible relationship of wages and prices. And a few hours before pens were put to the Big Steel contract, price-cutting broke out in Little Steel, with the announcement of a $4-per-ton reduction on cold-rolled sheets, an important item to the automobile industry (see p. 63). If price-cutting becomes general, U. S. Steel and the rest of the 500 companies which are expected to renew their C. I. 0. contracts on the same terms would very probably invoke the escape clause for a general wage...
Resentful of the New York Fair, which will be twice as big, San Franciscans point out that their fair buildings are costing slightly more to the acre than the eye-fillers on Flushing Meadows. One item in this cost is presumably the quantity of sculpture with which San Francisco's non-modernist but imposing buildings will be adorned. No less than 20 local sculptors had been working undisturbed with the exposition architects, until meaty Irishman Connick, who was chief engineer for the 1915 San Francisco fair and later finance chairman of Famous Players Lasky Corp., became executive director fortnight...