Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are several notes by students in the Law School. Among the most important of these is the article on Baltimore Telephone Rates being a discussion of the case: West v. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. It is an exposition of the index method of rate valuation. Another vote "Reorganization A Riddle in the Revenue Acts" is work entitled "The Panorama of Contemporary Music" which it was stated that he was the author of "Jazz Studies...
...tags on every possible occasion detract from the effect which the stories would have had if told in a less decorated manner. The common reader, for whom this book was obviously intended, need not be frightened by the semi-scholarly appearance of the book (bibliography, scattered footnotes, though no index). He may even find himself wishing for more honest facts and fewer tidhits illustrative of that so quaint life of the times...
Most laymen would be hard put to it to define excess bank reserves, much less their significance. Last week, however, the public manifested a sudden interest in this prime index of potential credit. Excess reserves of all members of the Federal Reserve System rose $80,000,000. That was not a notable weekly gain and it was easily explained by the continued flow of gold to the U. S. What aroused the public's curiosity was the fact that the rise carried total excess reserves above the ponderous and unprecedented figure...
Assuming that such is the truth, such an index of mass psychology from the time of the publication of "Newes from Virginia" in the early days of James-town to that of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Renascence" guarantees only an historical study useful to research students. But the great value of a collection and of all these compact little volumes of the Oxford series is in furnishing a handy reference to subject matter which the general reader wants to pursue once more...
...observations of man and life which he put into Man, the Unknown began when Alexis Carrel, son of a silk merchant, was a medical student at the University of Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful...