Word: sol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such an advertisement was that for Japanese Oil (EN-AR-CO), which under the arousing headline FLU EPIDEMIC described the oil's use for head colds, sore throats, chest colds. Perhaps even more persuasive were advertisements for Turpo, Nozol, Harrison's Heart O'Orange, Calotabs, Mu-Sol-Dent, Bulgarian Herb...
...also, one especially able assistant: Walter Catlett speaks of a "sunken garden for fallen women," and when comparing a watch with a sun dial, he speaks of "old Sol and Ingersol" with fetching apologia...
Joining Indian tribes is good politics in the U. S. President Coolidge joined the Sioux last year. This year the whole G. 0. P. affiliated itself with the Kaw & Osage tribes through Nominee Curtis. Notable among individual joinings this season was an event last week in Wisconsin. Sol Levitan, Jew, the State Treasurer, became Tchay-Ska-Kah, or Der Weisser Bock, or White Deer, a chief in the Winnebago tribe...
Human beings, accustomed to the whir of airplanes overhead, remain calm, fail to tremble. Not so giraffes, zebras, sable antelopes, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses. Fearing these charges will dash themselves to death in their fright, Sol A. Stephan, manager of the Cincinnati Zoo (see p. 21), last week requested airport authorities to reroute all airplanes to avoid...
Thirteen such months give 364 days. But there are 365.242 days in each year. The 13th month and the extra day and a fraction are disposed of in this wise: The month is inserted in the calendar between June and July and called Sol, because during it would come the summer solstice. The full extra day would come at the end of the year and be called International Day, Dec. 29 or Jan. 0. There remains practically a quarter day, which every four years could be counted an accumulated full day. This would be inserted between June and Sol...