Word: calendars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Lutheran Church's board of college education, reports that "A rising crescendo of questions regarding the vast amount of seemingly aimless activity is coming from the center of the church. Innumerable meetings, immersion in 'churchiness,' the not-a-minute-to-spare crowding of the temple calendar and the pursuit of statistical success have left many of the most active members exhausted both in body and spirit...
Harding, elected Treasurer, offered extensive service on the HSA Calendar as evidence of his business seminar. Although he is currently manager of the Calendar, Harding said he was "thoroughly in favor" of having the Council carry out a detailed investigation of all HSA agencies. He also asked that the Council serve as a mediation group through which antagonistic student organizations could settle differences...
Stocking a family shelter presents little or no problem to the man with a small measure of ingenuity. There are the obvious things like civil defense instruction material (several volumes), a large pail for "human waste," candles (for birthdays), and a calendar (for marking birthdays?) Next comes food. "Select familiar foods (they are more heartening and acceptable during times of stress)." For example, "peanut butter and jellies with crackers...
...sailor, was a giant of a man (6 ft. 3 in., 275 Ibs.) who ruled the House by brute genius, and raised the speakership to a peak of authority. By refusing to entertain "dilatory motions" (i.e., anything he disliked), Republican Reed won arbitrary power over the calendar of legislation. By counting silent members as present, he frustrated the Democratic minority's parliamentary ploy of preventing a quorum by refusing to vote. The "Reed Rules," many of which are still in use, ended House filibusters for all time. Reed was known as well for his cynical...
These people were birders-a flinty-eyed, cold-tailed breed whose normal habitat covers just about every square mile of land in the U.S. They nest and feed very much as humans do, but at around the turn of the calendar every winter, they roost in icy swamps, deep forests, river and creek shores, arriving there usually in predawn darkness, armed with cameras, binoculars, telescopes, field guides and silence. They are a kind of rara avis whose purpose it is to count birds and species of birds, with the emphasis, of course, on the rara avis...