calender
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Bowser said on a conference call last week with dozens of leaders that the District has explored adjusted summer schedules and a modified academic calender for the coming year.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020
These vehicles divide your money between stocks and other investments and adjust that mix as the calender pages flip closer to retirement.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2020
But a recent decision by the Executive Committee has two events now also coming off the calender.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2017
Dwight Howard continued to be the best center in the NBA, but the man carried bad vibes with him all through the calender year, from the east coast to the west.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012
“Ay, where the Frenchmen live that calender worsted,” returned Giles.
From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy
He kept going back to his precious ledgers of innocence, the calenders.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2018
School districts across the state are racing to adopt their 2017-2018 calenders and are scrambling to see whether they will have to reduce spring breaks to adhere to the mandate.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2016
The entire length of a paper machine, from the screens to the calenders, is about one hundred and twenty-five feet, while the height varies, the average being about ten feet.
From A Book of Exposition by Homer Heath Nugent
After being reeled, it is allowed to stand for a while to harden; then is run several times through the calenders to get the smooth surface.
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock
Calender, kal′en-dėr, n. a press consisting of two rollers for smoothing and dressing cloth, paper, &c.: a person who calenders, properly a calendrer.—v.t. to dress in a calender.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various