Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear-shining little blue stones, without fear, without self. He cried softly, for joy, and knelt and thanked them for coming to see him. He had seen but 16 other people in his 37 years there. He kept history in tiny scratches on a stone, beside a meticulous lunar calendar. What could he do for them?-he asked it like a child. Once he had been proud, he said, so he had come here to see God. He had not yet seen God, but now he knew he could not see him until he died...
Famed as leader of "calendar reform" is George Eastman. Last week to his side came Julius Rosenwald's Sears, Roebuck & Co. which announced it will operate next year on a 13-month schedule. To its customers, the introduction of some new month such as "Sol" will mean nothing, but 40,000 employes will have to consult their company's new calendar to learn when payday falls...
Closely does Sears, Roebuck's decision follow upon the publication last fortnight of the results of balloting conducted by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Although 1,580 voters had favored a new calendar as against 1,197 opponents, a two-thirds majority is necessary before the Chamber of Commerce can endorse a movement...
While a uniform calendar has many advantages, its opponents argue glibly. Cost and confusion of a change would be overwhelming. Religious days such as Easter could not be fixed without the Church's approval. But state and city holidays wishing the new calendar can freely follow Sears, Roebuck's example, install it without further balloting...
...origin of the present calendar year was in 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar ordered the solar Julian Calendar to supersede the old lunar one. in this calendar every other month had 31 days, the rest 30, except February which had 29 except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days...