Word: indexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...university; the subsidies range from $30,000 a year at small presses to $300,000 at Harvard. Sales of most books are inevitably small; but to university press directors, quality is always more important than quantity. "The publications of a university press," says Chicago's Shugg, "are an index to the quality of the university...
...stock has fallen almost 50% from its 1964 high of $293.75. Last week, after losing another $2.50, it closed at $153.25. Even so, Du Pont remains the highest-priced stock in the Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip companies. Its plunge has therefore pulled down that bellwether index four times as much as would a similar rate of decline in a stock priced at a more typical $50 a share...
...Griggs was able to cover the week's events in Jordan and Syria. "The main trouble is knowing whom to believe," says Griggs. "Everyone has an angle and facts are relative at best. Fortunately, after nearly three years here, I have been able to establish a certain reliability index...
After flirting with the psychological 900-point barrier for nearly two weeks, the Dow-Jones industrial average leaped across it by bounding 5.18 points in one day to 901.95. By week's end, the index forged ahead to 905.96, for a week's gain of 8.91. That was its highest closing since May 4, 1966, and a comeback of 22% from last October...
Editorial Economy. In the preface to his chronology of practically everything, Williams explains that he accumulated a stack of index slips that ran to 30 feet. Nobody can argue with his facts. What does seem regrettable is that he sometimes slights American achievements. Consider "Sport" in 1938: "Len Hutton scores 364 runs against Australia at the Oval Test Match (Aug.)." It would have only been cricket to add a separate-but-equal note reading: "Gabby Hartnett hits home run in the last of the ninth to give Chicago Cubs chance to win National League pennant (Sept...