Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There must be pleasure, too, for those agents provacateurs in donning figurative false beards and going out on the vice-hunt, with their Index Expurgatorius in one hand and sufficient funds in the other to provide them with the latest and freshest in potentially risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston...
Occupying a prominent position on the "Index" is the British philosopher's. "What I Believe." That the appearance of Mr. Russell at Symphony Hall yesterday occasioned no great turmoil among the officially righteous brings the unpredictable actions of the censors into sharper relief. The probable contents of a lecture on the faith of an unbeliever should be sufficiently apparent. But no action was taken to restrain the famous philosopher from corrupting Boston's intelligentsia...
...proclaimed sages who declared they had predicted the break. But outstanding Wise Man was Roger W. Babson who, after a record of much unsuccessful seering, publicly forecast the decline, although instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to Prof. Irving Fisher's index of 50 most active industrials). Quickly capitalized was Seer Babson's accuracy, as were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would provide a slow rising market...
Professors East and Black will be engaged in several phases of work for the Union, in one of which they will assemble all existing statistics concerning the population and food supply of every country in the world, and prepare a bibliography and index for them...
...paragraph for TIME, but if you will permit me I shall be very glad indeed to mail you the journal, and one of your editors might handle this interesting subject. It is intimated that later the girls of Vassar, Wellesley, etc., are to be measured. It seems the cephalic index (head) varies from 71 to 71.00 mm. Also, in Table 73 is set forth the leg lengths of these young ladies, which vary from...