Word: seven-day
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...movement has the backing of the Liberty Calendar Association of America, with a list of dignitaries as long as its name. So far as we know, no one has ever objected to the length of the day, and curiously enough no reformers have ever proposed a substitute for the seven-day 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...
...Notice: All students in the first and second years of their sojourn here shall be required to bathe their faces and hands each day upon arising; their hands before each repast; and their entire persons once within each seven-day pan. Registration for the bath shall be made in the office of the water-commissioner at least one day in advance. Registration after the bath shall be made at once to the Faculty of Hygiene...