Word: indexers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clinic. Since 1888, Dr. Dock has contributed 158 papers to medical journals on an astonishing variety of subjects, the titles of which give a clue to his wry humor and firm thoroughness, e.g., The Advantage of Using Potassium Iodide Until We Have Something Better, Spelling As An Index to the Preparation of the Preparation of the Medical Student. He was one of the first full-time professors of medicine in the U.S. (at Washington University in St. Louis). As a precise, energetic professor at the University of Michigan until 1908, he was the first teacher willing to make the clinic...
Baedeker of Thought. The instrument: a two-volume, 2,500-page concordance of the Great Ideas in the Great Books. When it is published later this year, as the "Syntopicon," or index, of the first full set of the Great Books ever printed, Philosopher Adler will have due cause to claim that he and his colleagues have completed the first Baedeker to 30 centuries of Western thought...
...less a vision than an afterthought. It was conceived one day in 1943 when Adler and Chicago President Robert Hutchins were discussing their plans for publishing the 443 Great Books in a 54-volume set.* Suddenly Hutchins remarked, "We will have published the Great Books. You prepare an index of the ideas contained." It took Adler a while to learn what a job he had taken...
...phone and he said sure I could talk to his wife but why didn't my paper [the Indianapolis Times, of which Heinke is assistant managing editor] get going on a crusade about taxes? He talked to me for ten minutes. Mrs. Miesse looked through her index books and announced that she couldn't even find the poem in question. She wondered whether the poet had even written it. Anyhow, she had no idea what T-Y-T-Y meant...
Ingenious juggling of Russian production figures is absorbing several members of Gerschenkron's staff. Donald Hodgman is constructing an independent index of Russian industry, based solely on Russian figures, which "have a considerable upward bias." Hodgman will then try to make some sort of comparison with U. S. output...