Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know it not all of you business women. When you took a taxi to come here, you automatically made a contract with the taxi company, or if in your own car, your contract for your chauffeur's wages was already made The wages of your servants are an index of wage scales. You leave one shop to go to another because you think they have not treated you fairly; they have not delivered the right quality of stuff, or have quoted different prices to different customers. We are, you see, all of us closely tied up in common business interests...
...letters of college freshmen to prove that first year university work would have been much easier with a knowledge of how to use books and libraries, these petitioners are almost ridiculous. The collegiate mind must be singularly inept which fails to solve the intricacies of the average card index system after a few moments of thought. And the fact that several cities report that their libraries are crowded with school children to the exclusion of adults would seem to indicate a reasonably wide familiarity with books and their eccentricities...
...charges to be met by Germany from taxation, railway earnings and industrial debentures. Payments to be fixed on a sliding scale, starting with $250,000,000 (cash and deliveries in kind) and rising to a standard payment of $625,000,000-. A system of supplementary payments, based on an "index of prosperity," to augment the sum of $312,500,000 for the financial years of 1929-30 to 1933-34; thereafter the supplementary payment shall be added to the standard payment...
Ever since Dec. 1, 1923, according to Bradstreet's index, prices for commodities have been falling. Starting with 146.0 on that date, the index fell to 143.8 on Jan. 1, 1924; to 143.3 on Feb. 1; and to 139.9 on March 1. The figure of 137.1 for April 1 shows that the downward movement has continued...
...index of a general raising of scholastic standards the statistics are not entirely unsatisfactory. The upper class representation on the Dean's List is certainly a commendable feature, especially when considered together with the fact that the figures for probation and dropping of upper-classmen are in general no greater than those of last year. This fact, indeed, brings out clearly that the stiffening of college work has fallen with peculiar severity on the Freshmen...