Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again TIME errs! All of Zola's works are not on the famed Catholic Index of Prohibited Books. A friend of Zola's challenged him to write one book that would not be banned. Zola's The Dream can be read by Catholics-TIME'S statement notwithstanding...
Many authorities believe that Emile Zola wrote The Dream because he wanted very much to get into the French Academy. It is almost aggressively innocuous, but beside Emile Zola's name in the Catholic Index librorum prohibitorum are the words opera omnia, all his works including his snowdrop among weeds," The Dream...
...number of accidents charged to 'pilot error' is by no means an index to the number of errors committed. . . It is only in the mountainous regions where the clouds have solid cores [i.e., peaks against which an airplane can smash] that the errors are brought to public attention...
...number of businessmen calling at the White House could be considered a reliable index of depression, it would have appeared last week that the nation was in lamentable condition. During the first three weeks of 1937 when Boom was in the air President Roosevelt saw about a half dozen businessmen. Since the turn of this year he has talked with more than 100. The White House calling list may not be a very reliable index of business activity but it is-at the moment at least-a sensitive index of business sentiment. For the eagerness of businessmen...
...Help, help," yelled Bernard D. Shea '41 as he danced around his room on the fifth floor of Thayer yesterday, trying desperately to shake off a tenacious squirrel which held his index finger firmly in its teeth...