The author reviews the history of the Wholesale Price Index, the Consumer Price Index, and Parity Index, pointing out the wide variation that in the past has characterized frequency of revision (intervals of revision), retroactiveness of revisions . . . .

Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron.

In any suit against his lord the proof of his condition of villainage was sufficient to put him out of court, and his only recourse was the local court of the manor, where the lord himself or his representative presided.

For these two weeks every August, the katydid chorus overlaps the buntings' song while the efts crawl up the trail along the river and the breakdown of chlorophyll begins to ungreen the leaves.