Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fundamental difference between the Supreme Court of the U. S. and the Privy Council is the difference in the size of the calendar. Comparatively few cases come before the Supreme English bench, whereas the U. S. Supreme Court has each year a thousand or more cases on its calendar. Mr. Beck states that the appeals to the Supreme Court are generally more difficult and complex, involve greater interests...
...shining brightly in Peking when, at 7:45 a. m. on Oct. 10. the twelfth anniversary (according to the Chinese calendar) of the birth of the Chinese Republic, *Presdent-Elect Marshal Tsao-Kun stepped from the train which had brought him to Peking...
Millions, members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, went to sleep on Oct. 13, thinking it was Sept. 30. They woke up to find the new day Oct. 14. The Gregorian Calendar (used in the rest of Christendom) had been substituted for their more ancient Julian. The one was instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, in 1582 A. D., the other by Julius Caesar...
When a few days ago some two hundred million people were cheated out of theirteen days of their lives by the change of the Orthodox Greek Churches from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, the fearful wail that must have gone forth can easily be imagined by the Daylight Saving "grousers" At the same time it may have reminded people of what an arbitrary and imperfect thing the Gregorian calendar is. Although Caesa, and Pope Gregery put it inot fair harmony with the solar year, it is full of odd quirks. For instance it begirs on January first instead...
...view of these irregularities, business is anxous for a standardized calendar--week days falling always on the same date and movable feasts made immovable. To do this there would have to be thirteen months of twenty-eight days each with one (or two) days left out in the cold. But is America to be dictated to by business, to put an efficiency expert in the presidential chair? If all environment is pressed into a regular pattern, then human beings will be only paper figures and geniuses and charming women will no longer exist. Rather let easter move from early March...