Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dial has awarded its $2,000 prize for the best poem of 1922 to an opus entitled The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot. Burton Rascoe, of The New York Tribune, hails it as incomparably great. Edmund Wilson, Jr., of Vanity Fair, is no less enthusiastic in praise of it. So is J. Middleton Murry, British critic...
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...week; but schemes to reduce the three hundred and sixty-five and one quarter days, which this giddy globe still takes for his annual romp around the sun, to some common denominator of weeks and months have flourished since man first matched the water-clock against the sun-dial. The present system calls for thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, a New Year's Day without date, the week to begin on Monday, and would cause the day of the month always to fall on the same day of the week. Every four years, a Leap Year Day will...
William L. Davis, plaintiff, represented by the Warren Club, was the proprietor of an express business operating between Boston and various New England towns. The New England Publishing Company, defendant, represented by the Kent Club, was a corporation engaged in the publication of the "A B C Pathfinder and Dial Express List" which contained the names of about four hundred local expresses doing business in Boston and its vicinity. The plaintiff applied to the defendant to have his name included in the next issue of the Guide, and the defendant refused to take any action on the matter. The defendant...
...much more probable solution, however, is that the Astronomical Department has decided to restore the old sun dial. Unfortunately, the untutored workmen placed the noon mark some hundred odd degrees out of position, and the Department has generously given the artists a vacation until the sun shall have caught up with the dial. In the meantime the answer to the question, what goes on, remains as it has been for the last two weeks: nothing...