Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reverse, then, of Mr. Robinson's contentions in regard to scholarship seem to obtain at Princeton; namely, that if scholastic rating is a fair index of the extent to which a man is benefiting from the college curriculum, the man working his way is getting more out of his scholastic work than his more financially favored classmate. The reason for this is that the former, in most cases, necessarily acquires the ability to arrange his time effectively; he learns that he can use to advantage minutes which are wasted by his classmate. The time that he is forced to spend...
...interest to fewer investors, less important as a business index, but perhaps the most remarkable 1930 statement yet to appear was that of Coca-Cola Co. Profits hit a new high record of $13,515,000 against $12,758,000 in 1929. Gallon sales rose from 26,981,874 to 27,798,730. U. S. sales amounted to a per capita Coca-Cola consumption of 28 bottles. Responsible for this showing, said Coca-Cola officials, was an extra $1,000,000 spent on advertising last year, and an extra $500,000 on sales efforts. Also beneficial: cheap sugar...
Prices & the Public. Liquor prices, the Commission found, furnish a fair enforcement index. It reported: "There is significantly uniform evidence that while now and then the pressure of enforcement raises all prices for a time at some one spot, whiskey of good quality is obtainable substantially everywhere at prices not extravagant for persons of means...
Valuable not only as a reliable index of Nassau student opinion, the petition is significant on account of the very nature of its proposal. All previous attempts to bring. Harvard and Princeton together have failed because their respective football policies are incompatible. Recognizing this fact, the CRIMSON two weeks ago asked that relations be resumed in all other sports. The practicability of this suggestion, with which the Princetonian concurs, is echoed in the captains' petition. Since football is the only stumbling block it is hard to imagine any valid objection to carrying into action the provisions of the petition...
Emphasizing the fact that the infant mortality rate in a community is the most sensitive index to its social and economic development, he contrasted the conditions existing 20 years ago with those of today. At that time an infant mortality rate of 100 out of every 1000 was considered reasonable. While now nearly 70 babies of every 1000 born in Boston die before their first birthday, the mortality rate for the first year being in the state of Massachusetts, 64.7, and in the United States...