Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry E. Laukhart, was bound over to the Trumbull County grand jury last week, accused of accepting a $40 bribe to ignore town speakeasies. †The cost of U. S. government, federal, state and local, was $10,975,000,000 last year (N. Y. Trust Co.'s The Index, July, 1926). In 1924 it was $10,252,000,000, which meant 16% of the income of all the people, or $91.47 for each one, or $400 for each family [American Exchange-Pacific National Bank (Manhattan) August monthly letter...
...many other types of chain stores) is increasing much more than is the business of department stores. Thus the latter's sales are only one-third greater than they were in 1919, whereas those of their unpretentious competitors have doubled in the past 17 years (Department of Commerce Index...
Newspapers take great pains to keep records of the lives of well-known men to be published when these men are dead; every office maintains a grim and bulky index known as the "Morgue," which must be kept up to date from week to week and is generally entrusted to the care of some scarred battle-horse of a reporter, himself soon due to fare earthward on his last assignment. But if a personage dies at an awkward hour, if the announcement reaches the office just as the paper is going to press or the editor to the races...
...charm, the case still had keen interest, since one of the young assistant attorneys chanced to be John Marshall Harlan, grandson and namesake of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan, who sat on the U. S. Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911. There was a piquant index to the course of U. S. legal history in the fact that, at the age (later twenties) at which his grandfather was sitting on a Kentucky county bench and running for Congress, the grandson was making a début? from the modern point of view a most auspicious début?...
They appreciate also another quality found in "Celotex." the quality that induced the Polar pilgrims to take it along to build their temporary homes at Kings Bay and even to line their ship quarters with it-its high insulating index. That this boarding synthesized from sugar-cane waste also deadens sound was immaterial to them. What they valued most was that it would keep out cold-cold which they expected would reach 50° to 60° below zero during part of their journey towards the Pole, and that it would keep within doors heat adequate for comfort. They might...