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
Siemens still expects to sell shares in its Osram lighting unit, where sales grew 7 percent in the quarter, during the calender year 2012, CFO Kaeser said.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 24, 2012
You have erased from the calender of human afflictions one of its greatest.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
These dry and harden it into a sheet which will support itself; and without the aid of blankets it winds among iron rolls, called calenders, which squeeze it and give it surface.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 by Various
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
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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