Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those were Pollster Gallup's latest contributions to his bulging card index of U.S. opinions, beliefs, customs and morals. How much did his findings have to do with the price of eggs? That was another question. In the election year of 1948, what most U.S. citizens were watching eagerly were the computations on Pollster Gallup's political slide rule...
Some two weeks ago trainers pared a callous from the index finger of the pitching hand of Bill Connolly, the portly right-hander who was scheduled to be the number one hurler for Harvard this spring. The finger is now well enough for Connolly to use it again, but only if he is allowed to cover the tender spot with adhesive tape...
Personal Traits. Of average size (5 ft. 8 in.; 165 Ibs.). His most pronounced facial characteristics are his famed brush mustache and his round, brown eyes. His most characteristic gesture when making a speech: emphasizing a point by rising on his toes, leaning forward, pointing his index finger and popping his eyes. He favors dark, conservative suits, hates to be photographed in his shirtsleeves (he thinks it undignified) or with his mouth open (his front teeth are slightly parted). He speaks in deep, deliberate tones, uses an occasional gentlemanly damn...
...Despite the impressiveness of the rise, the market still had far to go before it convinced traders that a permanent turn had come. It had to break out of the narrow "trading range" between 160 and 188 on the Dow-Jones industrial index in which it had moved since the bull market ended in 1946. Not in 45 years had the market backed & filled in so narrow a range (percentagewise) for so long...
...banks of the Charles were once again strewn with people. In his hand Vag carried "The Dynamics of Political Polity," a big brown volume with many Latin quotations and algebraic equations. Vag lay down on the grass, opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years. Its basis was in religion-fundamentalism and in the teachings of a Bessarabian mystic of the eleventh century. Vag read on eagerly...