Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot against Hitler. He helped prospective terror victims escape, falsified reports to dissuade Hitler from invading Spain, saved the lives of French Generals Giraud and Weygand after Hitler ordered them assassinated. He and other undercover rebels kept a detailed chronology of Nazi crimes since 1933 and a card index of Nazi leaders. These and other documents, involving 2,000 Germans in the plot against Hitler, were subsequently seized by the Gestapo...
...basis of the diagnosis, an insurance company paid Mrs. Walker a fast $239 in damages. Since medical expenses took up more than half this amount, it seemed a trifling settlement for so serious an injury. But when the Southwest Index Bureau later began to make a routine check of the claim, it found something hauntingly familiar about Mrs. Walker and her injury...
Titania's close resemblance to diamonds is due to its index of refraction, i.e., its ability to bend light rays. This property makes a stone glitter. Diamond's index of refraction is extremely high: 2.42. Titania's index is higher: 2.62 to 2.90. Even more important is its "dispersion," i.e., its ability to break white light into rainbow colors. Diamond disperses light twice as much as common glass does, but titania disperses it seven times as much. So far, titania cannot be made absolutely white (many valuable diamonds are not white, either), and it will never rival...
...prices could not be controlled satisfactorily without a change in the law.) Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that food prices as of Dec. 15 had jumped 3.2% in a month, to within a hair's breadth of 1948's alltime high; by last week the index was probably at a new peak...
SOLITUDE --from the Widener Card Index...