card index BrE

The Shadow replaced the card index where he had found it.

The man who had the best card index of the cases would also be the wisest judge.

Telephone numbers can be kept separately, on a card index or in a contact book.

He turned over a card index on the desk. '

His job was to make a card index of suspect radicals - anyone who wrote or talked against government.

Article 7 of the treaty indicates that a register or card index must be kept.

He hauled open one of the card index drawers and flicked through.

The reports are indexed by subject and location as appropriate on a card index.

Once inside they went to the card index.

She pulled a sheaf of cards from the immense card index.

Agnes leafed through a battered card index in front of her.

Did friend Michael have an address book, or a card index and a diary?'

One feels that anything to do with card indexes is more in a woman's line.'

He turns to look through a card index.

He consulted his his card index and picked up the telephone.

Card index of actors, recorded on the Odessa film studio.

He wanted the names and descriptions of the garage attendants, to check with his card index system.

Mitchell was the first person to incorporate his records and all the historic references he knew into a card index.

There is a card index arranged by name of officer for each of these files.

There was also a personality card index which contained detailed information of people of interest.

She opened a file of card indexes and pulled out a card.

Anathema, fully dressed, walked over to her card index, pulled one out, and passed it to him.

Within a file, information is organized in a number of records, rather like the cards in a card index.

She opened a red plastic card index, flicked through the contents and lifted out one of the cards.

Andropov opened a card index file and flicked back through a number of cards.