card-index

The DD system might have worked fine in the card-index era, but surely we have moved on?

Libraries Maxine 2009

I would like to take you for a moment inside our electronic card-index, the heart of this operation.

Telephony—A New Era in the Making 1953

Here again, if a card-index system is adopted a sample card for this purpose can be obtained from the Welfare and Health Section on request.

Women and War Work Helen Fraser

If a card-index system is adopted, a sample card suggesting the necessary particulars which it is desirable should be kept by Welfare Supervisors is supplied to employers on request.

Women and War Work Helen Fraser

First of all he procured a card-index box capable of holding about a thousand cards.

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

At the passport office they looked us up in the card-index of suspects, but thanks to the inefficiency of the police our names were not listed, not even McNair’s.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

I felt as a man might feel who had entered heaven in the devout belief that he would get individual attention, and found instead that the place was run on the card-index system by a band of efficient seraphim.

Try Anything Twice 1938

When Chandler ceased speaking he flung down the pencil, leaped to his feet and crossed the room to a set of card-index boxes standing on another table against the wall.

The Port of London Murders Bell, Josephine, 1897-1987 1938

In view of the fact that many individuals in the underworld are known only by their nicknames, the Identification Division has for years maintained a card-index file containing in alphabetical order the nicknames appearing on fingerprint cards.

The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1933

"Eighty-eight cubic metres of card-index," said Mr. Foster with relish, as they entered.

Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932