Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most telling index of Red defeat was the fact that even the staffs of the Communist Unita and the left-wing Socialist Avanti went to work to put out their papers, after it became apparent that other papers in Italy would publish on schedule. The Reds had boasted that during the strike no papers at all would hit the streets...
Beyond these matters, Hutchins' chief interests are his old ones. He is helping to sponsor a project, with Mortimer Adler at its head, to compile a giant index of the Great Books-a learned cross-file of all the great ideas the great minds have ever voiced. Meanwhile, as a result of brisk promotion by the university-organized Great Books Foundation, adult education classes in the Great Books are becoming a nationwide middlebrow vogue. Hutchins himself teaches one class of prominent Chicagoans (known as "The Fat Men's Course"). There are 50,000 other people hashing the books...
Since the city cannot get enough money to run itself from valuations it must turn to the tax rate for a source of income. The assessment valuation plus the tax rate gives an index figure which a city must maintain to operate properly. Thus, throughout Curley's administrations, the tax rate has been going up and, if the valuation were to drop to the real value of the land now, the tax rate would be even higher...
...that was to get back to bacon & eggs. I am sure," she admitted, "that every man here longs for a nice big juicy steak." But such yearnings, she insisted, were in reality nothing but an anachronistic hangover from the days of arrant capitalism when "meat was an index of prosperity," when men "ate steaks [because] it was the thing to do, like wearing a white stiff collar . . ." Enlightened Socialism "had established new feeding habits showing themselves in the decreased morbidity rate, the decreased mortality rate...
...bulls, all this was a sign of the market's inherent strength. But there were plenty of bears around. Not in 17 years, in fact, has Wall Street been so full of them-if the number of short sales is any index'. The New York Stock Exchange reported that, as of Sept. 15, short sales had risen 127,581 shares in a month to a total of 2,133,700, the biggest since Aug. 4, 1932, when the total stood at 2,151,840. The bears were wrong then. Only a month before, the market had hit bottom...