Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many consider the newly proposed calendar a needlessly confused system. To speak of thirteen months, no one of which has more than twenty-eight days, would seem to be "a most ingenious parodox." Children need no longer waste their idle kindergarten hours learning that "thirty days hath September--" or that leap year comes only once in four. This would mean a simplified education in perfect harmony with the modern tendency among older people to master the French language in a dozen lessons from a correspondence school...
...would find little relief from constant anxiety. Imagine the thirteenth day of all thirteen months landing on Friday. Then again, this new calendar may serve as a valuable antidote: if those who now entertain grave apprehensions regarding the number thirteen are still able to enjoy life under the proposed system, the time is at hand when two-dollar bills will no longer be scoffed at, and one match will suffice to light three cigarettes...
...Pennsylvania (William Wallace Atterbury, president) had the biggest, best-integrated, and most strategically located system of the district. It had control of the Wabash and almost half the stock of the Lehigh Valley. Most significantly it was in process of establishing itself in the public mind as the eastern railroad. This it was doing by institutional advertising and by pushing new railroad features, as electrification, air-rail transportation...
...Delaware & Northern which reached the news last week when Samuel E. Rosoff, Manhattan subway builder, bought it on speculation. New York City will probably need part of its right of way for a new water supply system...
During the Mexican War, Bennett established a courier system for the Herald correspondents; he covered the Civil War with 40 reporters on the various fronts. As a source of news, the Herald dominated the U. S. field and was practically the only U. S. newspaper read in Europe. President Lincoln, knowing the importance of the Herald, once offered Bennett the portfolio of Minister to France...