Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...among international forces by a formula most adapted for maintaining peace. ... I believe that if we place two identical weights on the two sides of an ideal weighing balance, equilibrium, in theory, should be maintained indefinitely. But if we place in them a living organism in perpetual growth, the index of the scales will be changed with velocity equal to that of the difference between the development of the two organisms. The organism which is developing itself with the greater rapidity will soon surpass the weight of the other and will cause the scales to tip in its favor...
Freight Rates. "The Department of Agriculture's index of freight rates indicates that they are still 58% higher than before the War. It is instructive to compare this figure with the index for farm commodity prices, which in September stood at only 34% above the pre-War level. . . . These freight costs are large relatively as well as absolutely. They place the American farmer at a disadvantage of from four to ten cents a bushel in comparison with the freight costs of his competitors in Canada and Argentina...
...where he was graduated by Yale in 1910. He has embraced literature and yachting ever since, is unmarried and free to spend himself upon a third enthusiasm, his society at Alma Mater, the Elihu Club. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares, is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. For writing Cordelia Chantrell he evidently added to his historical method a study of fine prose and much thought on the fine temper of his Southern acqaintances...
...Brief Introduction to the Infinitesimal Calculus, The Nature of Capital and Income, National Vitality, The Purchasing Power of Money, How to Live, League or War? etc. And all this was not enough. So Professor Fisher in his odd moments became a businessman-inventor. He conceived the "Index Visible" filing system, was made first president of that company which recently merged with Rand-Kardex Bureau...
Meanwhile, within the walls of his private office, a fine looking, impeccably dressed man surveys the tiers of scrapbooks with a smile, looks knowingly upon the card index files; leans back in his chair, thinking perhaps of the uncompleted volume of reminiscences which will reveal the secret...