Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Books set will include introductory essays by Hutchins, Mortimer Adler, Carl Van Doren, Stringfellow Barr, plus a cross-index of the world's great ideas and idea-men. An entire building on the Chicago campus is filled with ripe scholars and raw materials for this index. Publication date: 1948. For the first few years Britannica expects an annual sale of 5,000 sets...
...striving to provide the good life in a time of national strain, the problem is how to keep pace with a long-patient people who are suddenly losing their patience. Of course the few London squatters are an infinitesimal fraction of Britain's millions. But they are an index fraction...
...normal" years. At the point where the overburdened facilities of University Hall and departments of instruction cannot spread themselves 'round any further veteran and freshmen must rely on native savvy and a few tips to prevent their hard-earned educations from being filed away in the card index, along with 2000 others...
...last year-along with some $4,500,000,000 in values-had been wiped out. Next day there was another avalanche of selling (3,620,000 shares). Then the market rallied, but only briefly. As this week opened, the market cracked wide open again. The Dow-Jones index fell to 172.03, a decline of more than 17 points in only five trading days...
Trouble in Stocks. Nor was the stockmarket, the consensus of guesses on the business future, reassuring. For the second consecutive week it cracked badly. The Dow-Jones index of industrial stock prices fell 5.95 points in one day, the sharpest break since May 1940. By week's end it was down 8.56 points to 189.19. The decline was as steep as the one which signaled the collapse of the last big bull market in 1937 (see chart). (Some Gloomy Guses observed that the 1937 recession was also preceded by piling up of inventories...