Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publication of Dun's index numbers for June 1, 1925, revealed a slight average rise in commodity prices over the preceding month...
...eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which was probably at that time an important centre of learning, though it suffered many vicissitudes in its later history (see index under "Business School circular No. 47" on 'The present situation in the Bakery Trade"). There is one remarkable piece of primitive architecture which apparently served as the monastic refectory. It shows marked Byzantine influence and in its turn became a model for several college chapels in Oxford and Cambridge, England...
Pointing his index finger at M. Caillaux, he continued: "You have never ceased to protest your innocence. In that case, you ought to have demanded a retrial. You have preferred to come back here by the back door of electoral amnesty. . . . You doubted the possibility of victory [in the War] and risked the ruin of France. Not only do I refuse my confidence, but I consider your presence on the Government bench a defiance of the dead and living...
...born in London, educated at Yale, is the author of numerous short stories which have appeared in popular periodicals. Like an ubiquitous wraith, he haunts lounge, library, dining-room of the Yale Club in Manhattan. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. His other books are: Laughing House, The Big Year, Oh Susanna, Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography, The Queen of Sheba, The Seven Hills, The Fabulous Forties...
...September, 1920, this mad-hatter financing was brought to an end by a law which fixed the fiduciary note circulation at 41,000,000,000 francs. Prices, taking the index figure of 100 for 1914, were 506 in 1920; by the middle of 1922, they were 332, but by the end of last year they had reached the apex figure...