card index BrE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He turned over a card index on the desk.

It was a card index, almost hidden behind a squatty clock.

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