Word: great
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams (she is the onetime Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great-granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant); twin girls; at London...
Last fortnight the Great Man of Argentina, fiery Dictator-President Hipolito Irigoyen, who is almost fanatically secretive about matters of state, frankly admitted that he has it too. He called in surgeons who decided to operate at once...
...Paris famed Raymond Poincare, President of France during the War, chattily discusses his prostatic hypertrophy, sitting up in a great armchair, surrounded by vases of lilies, roses, chrysanthemums...
...Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...