Yearbook of forecasts

Usage examples of almanac.

Every year, preexistent in the almanac, each day already marked out on the perpetual calendar.

The almanac says that a sixth of the employed population of industrial countries works other than standard daylight hours.

The train is set in motion on December 19, when the world weather engine is traditionally in almanac respite.

In 1849 Miss Mitchell was asked by the late Admiral Davis, who had just taken charge of the American Nautical Almanac, to act as computer for that work,--a proposition to which she gladly assented, and for nineteen years she held that position in addition to her other duties.

When Miss Mitchell went to Europe she took her Almanac work with her, and what time she was not sight-seeing she was continuing that work.

I do not feel sure that it will be for the best, but I am sure that I could not hold the almanac and the college, and father is happy here.

I scratched it in my almanac, where I keep my record of planting and flowering and such.

Tedford carried in his almanac, back at his campsite, his membership card in the Melbourne Scientific Society and his only photograph of his brother: a murky rendering of a tall, sweet-looking boy with pale hair.

Then there was a small library of other books, including a medical lexicon published in London and an almanac beginning at the year 1731, the Holy Bible, ink, pens and writing paper, a box of watercolours and brushes, reams of fine-quality drawing paper, knitting needles and wool, a roll of soft tanned leather from which to make the uppers for footwear- the soles would be cut from buffalo rawhide.

But she read him the rules from the back pages of the almanac, then set up the board under the spreading branches of a mighty camel-thorn tree.

Earlier in the evening they had consulted the almanac together, but she asked again mainly to hear his voice.

Track Almanac had come through for a killing, and he had subscribed, though the ten bucks a week was a sixth of his salary.

The nature of the phone call from the man whose name I had been ordered to forget made it seem likely that there was something peculiar about the subscribers to Track Almanac and What to Expect, which was the name of the political and economic dope sheet published by the late Beula Poole.

People had received anonymous letters about him, and he had got a phone call from a man that if he subscribed to a thing called Track Almanac for one year there would be no more letters.

Track Almanac subscribers to tell them that their remaining payments should be made to another publication called What to Expect.