Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assumed that the general results of the poll will give an accurate and fair summary of the student view of prohibition. No cry of sectional bias can be raised when the final results are tabulated. The present college poll is sufficiently broad in scope to form a complete index of collegiate opinion on a subject which is of the utmost interest to students...
...against which, on a monthly basis, fluctuations are estimated. Three serious complaints against the accuracy of the Labor Department figures: 1) They cover only 12½% of the employment field; 2) No account is taken of the unknown number of idle workers during 1926 when the index was set; 3) If a worker is employed only one out of six days per week, he is reported as if he had a full-time...
Just too late to be included in the latest edition of the Papal Index Expurgatorius appears Iconoclast Henry Louis Mencken's Treatise on the Gods. The next Index will certainly list it. For Mencken, "quite devoid of the religious impulse," makes of religion his unholy hobby, traces its history with ingenuity, learning, logic, comes to the conclusion that Christianity is on the decline, is glad of his conclusion. Says Mencken: "Everything that we are we owe to Satan and his bootleg apples...
...begins? . . . The ponderables and imponderables in this matter are inextricably fused. To grasp the former is to lay hold of an infallible key to the latter. In other words, the painter's craft, allied as it is to 'manual dexterity,' is first and last an index to the painter's artistic character...
...carry heat from the body. But if the air is hot, humid and still, the body must struggle to throw off heat. The harder it struggles, the harder the heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed a pulse of 135 a minute, they complained of discomfort. Their heads ached, their hearts palpitated. A metallic taste came into their mouths. They could speak only with effort. At 160 pulses...