Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...windows and watched patrolmen enter the semi-basement of No. 46, a brownstone house. Soon appeared a dozen agitated women. Some carried infants. Then six more women with strained, angry faces walked out of the door. Policemen with wastepaper baskets full of surgical instruments, rubber devices and index cards in their arms, herded the six women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided...
...Cole, Associate Professor of Economics, to allow him to trace geographical variations of commodity prices from 1790 to 1860, and to direct specific attention to the history of commodity prices in New England in order to establish a commodity price index for that area...
...expedition will confine itself largely to photometric work. It is planned to measure not only the total sky illumination and to determine the light curve throughout the entire eclipse, but also to measure the absolute brightness and the color index of the Corona for comparison with the results of the previous eclipses. In addition to this, the expedition is equipped with a variety of lenses for rapid photography of the outer reaches of the Corona. A special Ultra Violet camera is being taken from the Mt. Wilson Observatory, which has a silvered quartz lense especially designed for the purpose...
...Habberler will also deliver two lectures during his stay at Harvard, one today and one next Tuesday. Although a comparatively young man. Dr. Habberler is already a statistician of considerable reputation, and in his particular field, that of index numbers, he is unrivaled in Europe. He is lecturing in this country as the representative of the German univerities on a fellowship supported by the Rockefeller Foundation...
...greatest authorities in the field of economics in the world, in the person of Dr. Gottlieb Habberler of the University of Vienna, will speak this morning on "Statistics and Index Numbers." Those interested in the subject can hear the lecture at 10 o'clock in Economics...