Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meals:...I incline to the opinion that particular word is not likely to have been used by New England Congregationalists in the early days. In trying to think up some other word, 'blessing' and 'thanksgiving' came into my mind, and I scored on each, for both are in the index. In 1650 an order stated that the Butler 'is not bound to stay above half an hour at Bevers in the Buttery after the Tolling of the Bell, Nor above a Quarter of an hour after Thanksgiving in the Hall at Meals'; the order was repeated...
...Those who wish to compete must send their theories in the form of an essay (between 15,000 and 100,000 words) to the Julius Rosenwald Essay Contest, No. 71 W. 47th St., New York City. Included must be an outline and summary of the essay, complete bibliography and index. No previously published material will be accepted. Copyright and publishing rights are reserved by Mr. Rosenwald's committee. Closing date is March...
Just as quotations of U. S. Steel are an index to the state of the stock market, so activity in U. S. Steel and other steel mills are a pressure gauge of general industry. Last week came reports of increases both in unfilled orders and in ingot production. U. S. Steel opened the year with unfilled orders totalling 4,417,193 tons, unfilled orders having increased 291,848 tons during December. Production opened last week at 60% of capacity, increased to 65%. Most active of the large steel companies was Bethlehem, which, operating at 45% of capacity at the time...
...solution to the difficulties caused by the dollar's variable purchasing power, Professor Fisher has long publicized a plan which will make the dollar's purchasing power fixed, the dollar's gold content variable. The essence of this scheme is for the Government to keep an exhaustive index of all commodity prices and to change continually the amount of gold for which a dollar may be redeemed, basing this upon the index's fluctuations...
...fear has some foundation; for indeed, high blood pressure if present over a prolonged period of time is evidence of a serious degenerative state of the blood vessels of the body. The significance of prolonged high blood pressure lies in the fact that it is an early and sensitive index of diseased blood vessels...