Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiscal year for the U. S. begins July i of the previous calendar year, and ends June 30. Fiscal 1929 is thus about half run. Costs of running the country, including debt reductions and meeting deficits of the theoretically self-supporting Post Office Department, have been and will be as follows: Fiscal 1928 $3,643,519,875.13 (actual...
With the days getting steadily shorter and the streets of Cambridge assuming already their mid-winter liquidity, the Vagabond was not surprised to find on inspection of a calendar last night that only another week intervenes before attractions less elevating than lectures will be alienating the interests of his followers and even--whisper it softly--of the Vagabond himself. Such a demonstration of the appalling brevity of life has had him hurrying back and forth along the way-stations of his academic route in an attempt to make use of every available opportunity before the Reading Period brings its starvation...
...Secretary of Agriculture must deal with crop-years-from sowing-time to harvest-time-rather than with fiscal* years, which, in the U.S., begin and end in the middle of calendar years. Secretary Jardine, reporting on the crop-year 1927-28 and anticipating 1928-29, announced...
...Swing-Johnson bill has passed the House. Arizona's two Senators, Ashurst and Hayden, prevented its passing the Senate only by a most heroic filibuster in the closing hours of last session. This session the bill has prime place on the Senate's calendar and Arizonans do not see how they are going to stop it again. A special engineering commission asked for by Congress last spring to make a final survey, has reported that the Swing-Johnson plans are entirely feasible, though perhaps $40,000,000 more expensive than estimated...
...cases looming on the calendar for argument in coming weeks included...