Word: almanacers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each homebound transport an information crew (one officer, six enlisted men) mingled with passengers, encouraging conversations and questions. They were well primed on the workings of the G.I. Bill of Rights. And they toted information kits which included copies of TIME, the World Almanac, and Army orientation pamphlets...
...Englanders noted that the trusted Old Farmer's Almanac had said all along it would be a poor summer...
...newspaper columning. This week his first effort appeared in eleven papers (The New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit News, etc.), all of whom bought him sight unseen. What they got were 1) excerpts from Welles's favorite reading, the Farmer's Almanac; 2) handy hints about cooking; 3) cocksure remarks about foreign affairs; 4) personal chitchat...
...compiled a notebook on navigation. At 14 he began a notebook on surveying entitled The Practical Surveyor. At 15 he compiled a notebook on algebra. He also constructed a barometer and wrote an almanac which "will shew . . . Suns rising, setting, declination, amplitude, his place in the Ecliptic, Right Ascension, Equation of time, the Moons Right Ascension & place in the Ecliptic, time of her rising and setting and southing . . . and the time of high Water at Salem, Epact, Golden Number & the year of the Julian Period...
...weather which required this camouflage was steadily worsening. According to almanac reckoning, winter officially began in the Moscow area last week. Until mid-April the ground will now be under a blanket of snow, the earth helpfully hard. To Marshal von Bock's men winter will be grim, but not deadly. The average temperature for January, the coldest month...