Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City. But five-day-week advocates everywhere cheered his statement, cheered even more loudly when he added that "The five-day movement has gained a real foothold and its adoption may reach throughout the country." A national five-day week would make Saturday leisure equal to Sunday; would give to millions of U. S. car-owning workers an additional day of relaxation, refreshment. Thus merchants of food, drink and transportation beamed and smiled...
...Harvard education is the way in which the divine will is interpreted by the deliberative bodies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Just why, for instance, the playing of tennis is to be looked upon as unholy in the hours before 2 and after 6 o'clock of a Sunday afternoon, but is perfectly acceptable during the hours between is a particularly knotty theological problem. One might conjecture that the auspices were unfavorable to any other arrangement on the day when this regulation was enacted but there seems little other reason in a suspension of Sabbath for these afternoon hours...
This compromise with purity enables various of the unfaithful to get a little exercise and breathe the fresh air of nature for a few hours each Sunday and many are thankful for the tortuosity of belief which allows it. One factor still remains in the situation, however, to plague the happiness of the men who entered into this agreement with the Almighty. Does the Deity who frowns upon the playing of Sunday tennis except between 2 and 6 o'clock recognize the validity of daylight saving time? In the light of Einsteinian ideas of space-time, one hesitates...
...just before the end of the hours for serving--at each meal. A certain class of fellows consistently come in the Halls at the last possible moment. Were the evening meal served from 6.00 to 10.30 there would be a large number come in at 10.29. On every holiday, Sunday, or any day on which the time is extended for serving, there is always this joyful rush at the last minute...
...there, and up-to-date news unheard of. So Vaughan, eager to learn what Crimson teams have done this year, wrote to the publicity office of the H. A. A.; and in reply a complete summary of Harvard's victories and defeats will be broadcast from Schenectady Saturday or Sunday evening, probably on the low-wave radio-phone transmitter...