Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made 34 homeruns, surpassed Gehrig's batting average .342 to .340. The idol of Detroit schoolchildren, he is approved by baseball-minded Jewish matrons because he is handsome, frisky and religiously orthodox. He has invented his own glove, which is larger than standard, with webbing between thumb and index finger. He makes $7,000 a year, prefers not to play on Yom Kippur. Next week, his well-to-do father, president of the Acme & Textile Shrinking Works, plans to order $500 worth of World Series tickets...
...much the same function each year with conscientious enthusiasm. For 21 years Editor O'Brien has offered his annual collections of the best short stories, exhaustive, painstaking volumes which include, in addition to the texts of the best stories, a Roll of Honor of several hundred more, an index of distinctive short stories-each title neatly tagged with one, two or three stars to indicate the precise degree of its distinction. Following a somewhat obscure mathematical formula, Editor O'Brien also grades magazines by giving their percentages of distinctive stories (The American Mercury, 100%; Story, 98%; The Atlantic...
...taking a cinema of the arrival of the Pan-American Clipper. Loyal Democrats paid $3 apiece for a raw fish and octopus banquet at which Boss Farley told them: "The United States is making reasonably steady strides back to prosperity. You can see it everywhere. You can take any index you please...
...Cleveland last week the National Machine Tool Builders Association reported that machine tool orders, good index of industrial activity, in July had jumped to 119.8% of the 1926 average, up 31% from June...
Last week F. W. Dodge Corp. reported that residential building contracts, good index of private recovery, in 37 Eastern States for the first seven months of 1935 were greater than similar contracts for the whole of 1934. Said Standard Statistics Co., Inc.: "Expenditures for construction are one of the most greatly effective means of creating employment, since 76? of every dollar so expended goes directly to labor. The conclusion is inescapable that the upswing in home construction represents another milestone in the climb out of the depression...