Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last March, District Court Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut ordered the State Department to give Dr. Nathan "a prompt and appropriate hearing." State filed a petition asking the court to review the whole case. Last fortnight Judge Schweinhaut criticized State for "dillydallying delaying tactics," and ordered that Nathan's passport be delivered "forthwith." State responded by taking the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which stayed Judge Schweinhaut's order but ruled that Dr. Nathan must have a "quasi-judicial hearing" within five days; if State continued to withhold the Nathan passport, it would be compelled...
...Methodist Church is under strong and specific injunction from the Method ist General Conference to oppose racial discrimination, allow Negroes to participate in church activities as equals. But a fortnight ago the Alabama Methodist Conference adopted a resolution demanding that the General Conference pass no legislation that would interfere with Methodists' rights to maintain segregated churches, schools and assemblies...
...fortnight later, new symptoms began to show. The patients' dark skins grew darker in patches and rose up in leathery plaques. Sometimes the skin peeled away, leaving white or pink tissue. Deeper burns wept and formed crusts. When burns were on the scalp (70% of all individuals), the hair came out by the handful...
...down, apparently without much regard to actual crop prospects. To nip attempts at price manipulation, the exchange boosted its margin requirements on Maine potato futures from $240 per 450-bag contract to $800 for traders who wanted to speculate in potatoes. But the margin boost did little good. Last fortnight, when delivery time for May potatoes arrived, the Mercantile Exchange found itself in the worst uproar since it first started trading in potatoes...
...momentous fall if only because the College was lively with plans for the first Reading Period, in accordance with a system announced the year before. Each Department revealed its own plans: some eliminated all lectures entirely during the fortnight before exams and others retained only those in the elementary courses. The whole thing was so new in approach to studies that there was no way of telling whether Widener would be jammed beyond all capacity, whether anybody would be able to obtain the books desired, or even whether anybody would bother to return after Christmas vacation...