Word: almanacs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news, and closes its columns to thoughtful innovation is on the way to becoming a gazette of events--an admirable thing in itself but hardly as interesting as a more inclusive sheet. Undoubtedly the first function of a newspaper is, as the Yale paper says, "to purvey news." An almanac, however, performs the same duties but almanacs seldom hold the reader tense. "No more reforms" is a neat phrase; but heaven help an unformed formed Yale...
There is an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket Books of the Month. Kate Green way's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
There will be an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket's Books of the Mouth, Kate Greenway's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
...year examinations will proceed under difficulties this year. For in addition to the fact that the end of the world will occur on February 6, as announced some time ago by the Seventh Day Adventists, the almanac also reveals the fact that the sun will go into a total eclipse in New England on January...
Last week, then, the sea-dogs of the world howled protestingly when it was announced that the 1925 Nautical Almanac would, by vote of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, impose the landlubber's midnight-to-midnight span upon all mariners...