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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...
...effect that one Simon Newton of the U. S. Engineering Office, Detroit, had tabulated the first names of 13,571 Army officers listed in Government records. Mr. Newton now writes : "I desire to say it required but little patience in comparison to an article of mine in The World Almanac for 1921, page 150, which embraced the names of 100,000 persons...
...findings for The World Almanac were...