Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They expected a period of higher prices-as had happened when meat and other foods went off control. But they also expected that after the first upward surge, prices generally would come back to reasonable levels-as they had on most foods (the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale food index showed a 5.5% drop in the last two weeks...
...trend in C.E.E.B. exam-making is steadily away from achievement tests (what do you know?) toward aptitude tests like the Navy exam (how well can you learn?). The aptitude tests, says Chauncey, are "about as good a single index of future success in college as there...
...cloche hat of the '20s. The trademarks of 1946 were elegance and variety; anything was in high fashion, so long as it had a splendid look. (One Manhattan store, with perfect justification, used a reproduction of John Singer Sargeant's 1884 Portrait of Madame X as an index to current style.) While the thrill lasted, U.S. women were going to be taken out and admired-if their husbands could find a tuxedo, that...
...Religious Book Club has no Index Librorum Prohibitorum - it is proud of its lack of religious rigidity in the books it recommends to subscribers. But this month many a Christian thought the club's board of editors* might well be ashamed of its religious laxity. Reason: the recommendation of Robert Graves's anti-Christian literary curiosity, King Jesus (TiME, Sept...
...belief that the stampede would slash future demands for feed, corn prices dropped 32? a bushel. Wheat was down also, along with oats. By week's end, the Dow-Jones commodity-futures index had fallen seven points, the biggest since 1933 when the index was started...