Word: bi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Ct., October 16--The Yale Daily News will begin tomorrow the publication of a bi-weekly supplement called "On National Affairs," to which various prominent men in the country will contribute articles on topics of national interest. It is hoped by the editorial board that this section, which will be a distinct departure in college journalism, will broaden the outlook of the average undergraduate by giving him an intelligent survey of vital issues in the outside world...
...Secretary Jardine's case, the offending sound was a routine bi- monthly report prepared by some of his economic experts on the world's cotton markets. The last sentence in the report said: "As was indicated in last month's report, should the present estimate of production be realized and past relationship between supply and price prevail, it is likely that prices will decline in the next few months...
There remained a further source of information. Washington correspondents, attending one of the bi-weekly White House conferences, submitted their usual sheaf of written questions, most of them devoted to the O'Shea statement. Going through the bundle of queries, the successor to the White House Spokesman* answered one concerning the appointment of certain judges, one concerning the progress of flood relief, one concerning a treaty with Panama which settled the matter of competition between Panama merchants and U. S. Government stores in the Canal strip. He then bade the correspondents farewell...
...voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. This Biblical quotation might last week have served as an epitaph for the famed White House Spokesman, born 1924, died 1927. He was brought into being by Washington correspondents, who, forbidden to quote directly what President Coolidge said at bi-weekly White House conferences, invented the Spokesman as their authority...
...madly about the ring. With graceful, measured step the matador advanced, rose on tiptoe, plunged his sword into the bull's breast, squarely between the shoulders. A bell rang. That bell was inside the bull. That bull was mechanical, controlled by an electric switchboard. Sportsmen were having their bi-weekly fun in a building on the banks of the grimy Passaic River...