Word: index
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholarship--and it proceeds to suggest a raising of entrance requirements on the basis of studies alone. Its ideas in that direction are constructive, and will undoubtedly accomplish their immediate purpose--that of cutting out those who are mentally unfit. The fact that grades are only a partial index of mental capacity is a truism which the committee has been obliged to ignore...
Albert Andrew Howard and Carl Newell Jackson: Index Verborum C. Svetoni Tranqvilli. An index to the works of Suetonius, a Latin writer of the second century...
...Harvard Index of general manufacturing output increased from 28 per cent below normal in May 1921 to 10 per cent above normal in January 1923, normal being 75-80 per cent of capacity", says the report. "The prices of many commodities stiffened in 1921, but it was not until 1922 that a widespread increase began...
...with no lectures to cut, no blue books to fill, and perhaps no teams to cheer feels lost. But as he leaves the Yard he keeps memories which become lively in reminiscence, an influence in University policy, and the responsibility for the University's continued existence. Even with card-index systems and efficient secretaries tracing the graduate, it rests on his won initiative largely whether he assumes this new relation to University life at once, or allows himself to drift away...
...months and one year U. S. Treasury Certificates bearing interest at 4¼ and 4½ per cent respectively. Throughout the war period, the rates on these certificates by which the nation's floating debt has been financed, have proved a remarkably accurate index to prospective as well as present conditions in the money market. The rates on the present issue of certificates have, like the Reserve rediscount rates, recognized the increasing demand for money by an advance over the previous rate-on the other hand, it is reasonable to suppose that the Treasury foresees only a moderately increased...