Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found to have faint arms. Then these arms were seen to be tremendously long and spiraling. Later the nebula was revealed as much closer to Earth than at first believed, scarcely 1,000,000 light years away. It was marked...
...English proverbs, Compiler William George Smith's is latest, most definitive. His Sisyphean task took him about 25 years, netted him over 10,000 proverbs. Because ill-health downed him before he could ready his book for the press, able Assistant Janet Heseltine supplied the introduction and index. Compiler Smith lists his proverbs alphabetically, dates the earliest published examples, gives illustrative quotations, but is not always able to explain their origins. Since most familiar proverbs need no translation for native English-speakers, few are given...
...industrial stockmarket averages stood at 144, a net gain of 38% for the year; 2) weekly carloadings were running more than 10% ahead of December 1934; 3) steel mills as a whole were operating at 47½% of capacity as against 41% the year before; 4) the Federal Reserve index of industrial production (November) stood at 97% of the 1923-25 average: twelve months before the figure was 75%; 5) the Annalist index of wholesale commodity prices was 129.4, up 8% for the year; 6) the Labor Department's cost of living index stood...
...Alleghenies are the world's most powerful. At its docks on Hampton Roads it can load ships at the rate of 10.800 tons per hour. Between the coal fields and deep water its route is the shortest, its grades the easiest And its operating ratio, prime index of railroad efficiency, is the lowest of any major U. S. carrier (last year: 46%). Chesapeake & Ohio, another model road with enormous coal tonnage, is proud of a ratio between outgo and intake on operations...
...Married Her Boss is a Columbia product, set off by a spoiled child and a drinking party in a store window. To Britons the important thing about it is that it projects "a kissless marriage," i. e., the hero and heroine do not sleep together. It is a fair index to British taste and British censorship...