Word: vernal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent idiosyncrasies of Cambridge journals--mere reactions, of course, to the monotony and morbidity which are March--have not been unique in the world of learning. Approaching spring has tempted minds, moored far from Harvard, into vernal vicissitudes of a varied nature...
...ecclesiastical year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers. It falls on the first Sunday after the Pascal full moon, that is, the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon on or after March 21 (the vernal equinox). Therefore Easter cannot come before March 22 or after April 25. This inconstancy of Eastertide has irritated money-grubbing merchants, who long have surreptitiously, indirectly exported the spirited, springtime* surge of joy, light and purity felt by celebrants. People have stepped from decorating their altars to decking their bodies...
...screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito" he will have to read the "Apology" and there, alas, the Socratic gadfly is waiting...
...skeleton of Diplodocus Carnegii, the 85-foot saurian which waded through the swamps of Utah approximately 10,000,000 years ago, has been hewed out in 25 tons of sandstone, near Vernal, Utah, by Dr. C. W. Gilmore, of the U. S. National Museum. It was hauled 152 miles over mountains to a railroad. It will take five years to clean and mount. The original specimen of the species is in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Diplodocus stood 16 feet high at the hips, weighed 18 tons in the flesh, had a tiny snake-like head and an elongated neck...
...same time it may have reminded people of what an arbitrary and imperfect thing the Gregorian calendar is. Although Caesa, and Pope Gregery put it inot fair harmony with the 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...