calender
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It was a ritual celebrated throughout Ukraine, in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches, which follow the Julian calender and will celebrate Easter this year on Sunday.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
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
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
The history of the first calender appeared very surprising to the whole company, and particularly to the caliph.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Milo Winter
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 calenders for jute almost invariably contain five different rollers, or "bowls," as they are usually termed; one of these bowls, the smallest diameter one, is often heated with steam.
From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by T. Woodhouse
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
Perhaps some of the gold pieces in Bagdad had put less warmth and hope into the complainants among the bazaars than had Quigg's beef stew among the fishermen and one-eyed calenders of Manhattan.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
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