calender
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Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington Teachers’ Union, said she is not opposed to adding extra school days but leaders should work with the union on any calender changes.
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
Of course the year ahead will bring unexpected suprises and breaking news but some events are easier to mark in the calender, as we already have done here at the Guardian.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2013
"It will not be believed in foreign lands," said the latter, "that such things are practised, that many reasonable men speak of them as of a mystery, and that our calender dates 1703."
From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. by Ludwig Tieck
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
He repented, but too late, that he had not taken the advice of his vizier, who, with Mesrour, the calenders, and porter, were, from his ill-timed curiosity, on the point of forfeiting their lives.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Milo Winter
He diverted himself with the multitude of calenders, santons, and dervises, who had travelled from the heart of India, and halted on their way with the emir.—W.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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
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