Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of important arrests have been made in Moscow during the last fortnight. The arrests were due to the extra vigilance of the police, owing to the near approach of the day fixed for the coronation of the Czar...
...Clarke and Carruth of Boston state that they cannot obtain copies of Carey's Social Science for Political Economy 2 short of two weeks' notice, so that those students who have not obtained copies from the Co-operative will be delayed a fortnight...
...young Oxford friends, who are true, good, truth-loving fellows. One of these has swept honor after honor, and lives on their income, and his conversation is all of the Lord Dundreary style. This is just what he said to a young lady friend in my hearing within a fortnight. He sat with one knee tightly held in his clasped fingers: "Do-eh-er-like-er-music? I-eh-ye-know-eh-like-er-music-eh-ye-know." It is said these people in English drawing-rooms know a great lot on all manner of subjects, and that what they...
...British Foot-Ball Association of New York has reorganized. The club will commence practice on the Polo Grounds in a fortnight, and on the 18th prox. they will play the Britannia Foot-Ball Club of Montreal a match game at the Polo Grounds...
...boat, is ill, but it is hoped that he will be in condition for the race. We hear that New York sporting men are giving 3 to 2 on Harvard, which is probably due to the comparison made between the two crews in the New York Herald a fortnight ago. The crew leave for New London next Thursday morning, and expect to witness the Harvard-Columbia race from their launch...