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Word: fornight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore of Peru, returning last fornight to the U. S., gave full credit for the Tacna-Arica settlement to Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Public Character | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Last week the New York World, no friend of the Republican Administration, printed the following quotation from the speech delivered by President Coolidge last fornight at Hammond, Ind. (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Carping | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, who last fornight had somewhat curtly replied to a request that he appoint a committee of investigation with the statement that the matter was his responsibility to be investigated as he saw fit, last week, suddenly, surprisingly, did appoint exactly the kind of committee which he had been asked to name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Committee | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...first half Coach Wachter's men, freed from the shackles of the Intercollegiate League guarding that has hampered them for the past fornight, celebrated their emancipation by a basketthrowing orgy. At half time the score was 23 to 5 and the wonder was that the margin was no greater. Rauh and Gordon were in their best scoring form and the Rhode Island defense was scarcely worthy of the name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODE ISLAND SNOWED UNDER BY 34-17 COUNT | 2/23/1924 | See Source »

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