Word: almanacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry E. Horn, president of the United Ministries and counselor to Lutheran students at Harvard, says Garuda was not accepted because he is a student doing research and represents a religion not listed in the World Almanac. Horn says he believes Garuda would use his membership to display his religion and try to attract potential followers...
After last winter's giant wallop, what is in store this year? Official U.S. long-range-weather forecasters are hedging their bets, but others are not. The 1978 edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac, out last week, predicts that the Northeast is in for a particularly "cold and gloomy" winter. Snowfall will be 15 to 20 in. above average. The chill will descend as far south as Florida. A moderate winter is predicted for the rest of the country-but folkloric weathermen in the Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction...
...confused by the full title: The People's Almanac Presents the Book of Lists. You are not watching a movie or a TV sitcom spinoff, although you are not exactly reading literature either. The explanation is a) simple, b) to keep each of these hints short and punchy, given under rubric...
...People's Almanac was a publishing coup brought off by Irving and David last year. While most reference books go on the shelf, this one was off the wall. Its 1,478 pages included biographies of comic-book characters, every obscure fact and factoid that could be assembled-and a series of unique lists ("15 renowned redheads," "nine breeds of dog that bite the most"). It was this section that proved the Almanac's most popular category...
...unions kicked us [his singing group, The Almanac Brothers] out after the war," Seeger said, "so we ended up singing at colleges...