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...recent trip to Africa, Mr. Haeseler directed two films, each of which presents a comprehensive survey of tribes on that continent. The first, "Berber Tribes of North America", was made in connection with an expedition from the School of Anthropology of Oxford University. The film shows the primitive water-clock, by which these people measure time. The film "Bedouins of the Sahara", shows the life of the nomads both in camp and oasis...
...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. The present system calls for thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, a New Year's Day without date, the week to begin on Monday, and would cause the day of the month always to fall on the same day of the week. Every four years...
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