Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually incomplete and frequently unreliable press despatches reported last week from Seattle the introduction of a new type of Japanese typewriter in Japanese wholesale houses of Washington. It has but one key and types 7,026 characters in addition to the English alphabet. A small index is supplied to enable the operator to look up unusual characters. The machine types 60 words a minute. Having gathered all the seemingly impossible features of the invention and having failed to mention the means by which such marvels are performed (as they may or may not be), the newspaper reports said nothing further...
...stockmarket has in the past proved a generally reliable index to the subsequent course of trade. The remarkable activity in shares this fall has thus been generally taken as the forerunner of expanding business and possibly higher commodity prices next spring...
After being balked in this one instance the writer set out to find out what other books were on the "Index Expurgatorius." His investigations disclosed first of all the works of Boccaccio. In this regard the writer says "The policy framed by the maidenly fears of squeamish old tabby cats has reduced Boccaccio to the position in the undergraduate mind of a pleasantly indecent myth...
...Dave" Kirkwood, fiery Clydeside Laborite, stretched his index finger and pointed with scorn to the rash knight: "That," said he, "is a gentleman"; and there was no mistaking the grinding sarcasm...
...classes of Massachusetts high schools. They found that a curve representing their subjects' intelligence followed closely the downward trend of another curve representing the incomes pf their subjects' parents. Professional men stood at the top of the income graph; their children at the top of the mentality index. Farmers and their children footed both indices...