Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless, if in five weeks Senate and House had passed little, they had done enough spadework to insure the passage of at least one item on the President's list (a farm bill, now being rewritten in conference) several weeks earlier than otherwise. Furthermore, two items not on the original program but added later because of Recession were got under...
...wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books is the anecdotal Cape Cod Pilot, which includes a vivid account of the sinking of the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown, manages to treat old and new Cape Cod with the same...
...also somewhat annoyed by the paradoxes and abstractions which result from the fact that atomic behavior cannot be visualized or represented by commonplace physical analogy. In a letter printed by Nature last month he drew up a polite bill of complaint against the physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied...
...surprised. Last week, Congressman Mansfield surprised himself even more thoroughly by another coincidence of exactly the same kind. This time, the bill to whose rescue he raced on his wheel chair was the Fair Labor Standards Act, to provide for minimum wages and maximum hours in U. S. industry, item No. 2 on the President's program for the current extra session...
...Another item is a first edition of his first work, "The Torrent and the Night Before," issued in 1896, and containing the following dedication: "This book is dedicated to any man, woman, or critic who will cut the pages of it-- I have done...