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Word: itemizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking a routine item over the phone about a Masonic lodge meeting in Louisburg, Kans. (pop. 677). a Kansas City Starman perked up slightly when told that a jut-chinned visitor named Harry S. Truman had been present. "You know,'' said the caller, thoughtfully clarifying his report, ''he is the former Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...House were adopted, "The likelihood that students of exceptional, though popularly unrecognized talent will be chosen is high." The high caliber of the appointees in this first year of the policy, coupled with the fact that only one man will be chosen from each House, make the appointment an item of considerable prestige, and thus should insure a quorum of able and disinterested men on the Council each year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Renaissance? | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...Going further with that power of suggestion," Shelley continues, "you recall the little slot behind the seat in front of you? There's one item in this little slot which is the most ominous item in the whole damn plane. It's a little, innocent-looking white bag. There are instructions on the back in three different languages, French, Italian and Hebrew. And all they're saying, freely translated, is Tn here, slob. In here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Confession Comedy | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...would be to go into orbit around the moon, as the U.S. Air Force hoped to do with Pioneer I. But this stunt requires a small rocket to nudge the final stage into capture by the moon's gravitational field, and the Russians have not mentioned any such item. Next degree of success would be to pass around the moon and return to earth. If the Russians were trying to do this, they did not know their own strength. When Lunik passed the moon, it was going so fast (5,500 m.p.h.) that the moon's feeble gravitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunik | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Luxury & Convenience. No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen. People tend to think of food as a standard, largely static item. But in 1958's new economy, nearly 50% of the products sold were not available in their present form at the end of World War II. By offering the consumer a constant parade of new ways

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business in 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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