Word: easterly
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...solar year, it is full of odd quirks. For instance it begirs on January first instead of with the vernal equinox because the Renaissance advanced the entrance of the consuls into office, their official opening of the new year, to get some respectable generals for a war. Then Easter depends upon the full moon, not because the Jewish Passover did, but because at the time of the Council of Nicea, navigators going to Jerusalem for the fast needed moonlight for night sailling...
...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 to late April and February twenty-ninth come but once in four...
April 20, Easter.-The Rev. Prof. Hugh Black, D. D., Union Theological Seminary, New York City...
...Easter rising...
...bicycle whose place in modern traffic seems as severely questioned as that of the coach horse is undergoing reclamation in England. Clubs for bicycling are dusting out their abandoned quarters and planning new trips, according to the Manchester papers, while Easter turned out to be largely a bicycle parade. Perhaps, with this reappearance of a sport of a generation ago, will return the other means our fathers took to keep their waistline slender...