Word: bi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing unusual in this fact, and that the same surplus existed two years ago. Whereas Dartmouth is allotted 21,000 tickets for the Harvard Dartmouth game, and succeeds in disposing of this number with great regularity, Princeton only takes care of 10,000 seats in the Stadium for the bi-yearly clash in Cambridge, and the total sales in Princeton this fall for Saturday's game will not exceed that figure...
...Certain circumstances connected with the last reduction aroused suspicion that the Administration, supposedly for political reasons, had deliberately planned two separate reductions: a small one for use in the bi-election campaign this year and a bigger one to become effective immediately preceding the Presidential campaign and election of 1928. However that may be, with an actual and estimated surplus of $562,000,000 available for reduction at the coming session of Congress it is difficult to discover any good reason for withholding and postponing that reduction for a full year, except to promote the ambition of Republican Presidential aspirants...
...other day and alternate Sundays. They were required to be in the dining hall seven hours and 20 minutes a day, of which time one half hour before each meal was allowed for eating, making a total of five hours and 50 minutes of actual work. Thus in a bi-weekly period the waiters were to work 40 hours and 50 minutes, for which they would receive 21 meals and $8.00 in cash (or meals), that is the equivalent of two weeks' meals less $1.50, or $.43 an hour. These men were to work under a professional headwaiter...
...Forbes, onetime Scotch printers devil, now editor of the financial bi-weekly which bears his name, penned many a hard word anent the late tobacco millionaire, James B. Duke, and published them in his latest issue a fortnight...
...again began to be made. The first important step was the purchase of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine and the election of its editors to the board of the CRIMSON. The purpose of the purchase was to secure for the CRIMSON the necessary mechanical equipment for the publication of a bi-weekly pictorial supplement, and more important, a nucleus of editors who could perform the technical work involved. The first supplement appeared the same spring, but it was not until the following autumn that the pictorial work was organized on the sound footing it has since maintained...