Word: almanacers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christmas Day, 1948 will be "unpleasant with rain or snow," and New Englanders may as well face it. Abe Weatherwise says so. For a century and a half, the meteorologist of the Old Farmer's Almanac has been predicting the year-round weather, and for all its radar and radio balloons, the U.S. Weather Bureau has never been able to woo his fans away. His forecast for the coming winter is a moderately pesky...
Died. E. Eastman ("Deac") Irvine, 65, folksy editor of the World Almanac, who built a successful journalistic career on the conviction that all newspaper readers are just like the folks in his home town (La Crosse, Wis.); of a heart attack: in Staten Island...
...pains me to confess to Miss Dora Plagemann, the handsomest teacher in San Francisco in my day, that for the order between Madison and Taft I must now take recourse to the World Almanac...
...their later studies in the field, but they do not need to waste a year acquiring a smattering of unassimilated, stereotyped facts and literary cliches. The English Department should reform this course so as to make it a true comprehensive history of English letters and not the literary almanac that it is today...
...Harvard," says the World Almanac, "has the largest university library in the world." The 325 commuters who daily make Dudley Hall their center of collegiate operations can only snicker. The Center does boast a room, hypocritically called a library, which houses in its one bookcase a dozen or so catalogues of various graduate schools. But no books, just a dictionary...