At the time I told him to purchase for me a "Bowditch Navigator," which I lacked, and any other Almanacs and charts he needed for himself.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
"A farmer needs a wife like he needs the rain," is an old farm saying, expounded for decades in the farmer's Almanacs.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
The correct name for this difference between the two kinds of solar time is the equation of time, but in the Almanacs it is frequently marked "sun fast" or "sun slow."
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock