Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of U. S. plutocrats climbs as quickly as a monkey up a stick, but to more purpose; for this number, together with statistics on import and export, chain store business, stock and bond markets, is an index to U. S. prosperity. In 1925 there were, judging by the taxes they paid to the U. S. Government, 207 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. In 1926, judging by the taxes that were paid in 1927 and published last week, there were 228 men who possessed yearly incomes of more than $1,000,000. Incomes over...
Having aimed at a par of five and made a bogey 19, Signer Mussolini alibied: "Further revalorization would be possible but undesirable. . . . The level of revalorization already reached. . . . is most satisfactory. ... It corresponds to the gold index of world prices and represents the point where all interests of the State and of individuals find a fair equilibrium...
Taking Senator Borah's attitude of mind towards the deaf and dumb as an index of official Washington, we can well understand why Gallaudet College government supported institution of the higher education of the deaf and dumb, is repeatedly denied the financial support of the government adequate to its sore needs. Even our great national leaders cannot get away from the fallacious conception of the deaf and dumb as social nonentities. . . . They apparently cling to the superstition that the deaf and dumb are inarticulate humans, eking out a miserable existence selling lead pencils on the street corners; or worse...
...perhaps frightened by pilaf, carme-leis and sildeboller are then directed to a consoling, italicized reassurance: The actual instructions for preparing each dish "... are so constructed that one may read each paragraph, then do as directed, then read the next paragraph, and so on." Even more practical, is "an index in which the recipes are arranged according to their chief ingredients, so that one can see . . . what dishes one can make from what one has on hand." Thus the possessor of a piece of liversausage will turn to page 244 and may produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only...
...July of this year. Said he: "Advance has been particularly conspicuous in the case of cotton as a result of a much reduced crop. As the prices of other commodities had meantime declined somewhat, the relative position of farm products has materially improved. On a pre-war basis the index for them now stands quite as high as the average for nonagricultural articles." Textile manufacture has also improved...