Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion that Protestants, after the manner of Roman Catholics, should get them a Calendar of Saints, whereby they may remember their great dead, has often been mooted. The suggestion was revived recently by one A. S. Collins in The New York Times...
...Comparing the estimates made in October with the actual results from the fiscal year, receipts were over-estimated $32,000,000 and expenditures overestimated $208,000,000. . . . The change in the money market since the first of the calendar year was perhaps the most material factor in bringing about the increase in the actual surplus over the surplus estimated in October...
...case of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, the response from graduates and non-graduates has been phenomenal. In the ordinary course of common-place events, a present of five hundred thousand dollars marks at the very least a red letter day on the institutional calendar; but when one has become accustomed to speaking carelessly in terms of millions, any digit with a following of less than six ciphers seems almost trivial. Of the ten million dollars originally hoped for by the sponsors of the present University drive, over eight have been subscribed. Princeton has been equally successful, and Yale has just...
...House worked desperately to clean up its calendar. Late hours and early hours were resorted to. Time was doled out in minutes. Speakers belched forth their arguments in haste in order to have their say before the descending gavel silenced them. Conferees worked desperately, reports were agreed with or disagreed with in hasty efforts at accomplishment. Business was rushing...
...Soviet calendar divides the year into twelve months of 30 days each; each month has six weeks of five days each, each week has four working days and one holiday. The extra five or six days at the end of each year form a special holiday week at the end of the year...