card catalog
Example Sentences
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Good information remained hard to come by, right up to the invention of the internet—as anyone who remembers card catalogs can tell you.
After a day of reviewing cookbooks and recipes from competent, contemporary cooks, I find myself scrolling toward something stranger: accounts that operate like a digital card catalog of retro culinary horror and delight.
From Salon
The area was chock-full of things—not only books but old files, card catalogs, leather map tubes, gramophones and older news-box editions, dusty albums, photographs, and so on—displayed in glass.
From Literature
The jury threw not just the book at him, but the entire library, including the shelves and the card catalog:
From Salon
"We show that there is basically a card catalog available," Heath added.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
