Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had more than the Reds to worry about. A fortnight ago he fired a proclamation: no more marriages for his troops...
...Last fortnight, the Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Monsignor Georges Léon Pelletier, let it be known that he viewed such talk with alarm. In a letter to the city council he came out against mixed bathing, warned that "promiscuity of the sexes in scanty costume [is] a menace to chastity and purity." The council took up the question and split four and four. Mayor J. Arthur Rousseau, who had toured Canadian swimming pools and been shocked at what he saw, announced that he stood with the bishop. Then everybody got into the argument...
Publisher Crum was still coy about his backers. Marshall Field, he explained, will keep only a 25% interest in the Star. Together, Crum & Barnes will hold 33 ⅓%. In the next fortnight they will select, from offers of $3,000,000 in working capital, the $1,500,000 they want...
...Less fortunate were the telefans who hoped to see the Zale-Graziano fight from living rooms or bars last fortnight. Du Mont had a contract to televise the fight, provided that the box office was healthy. At fight time there were still a few unsold seats in Ruppert Stadium, and the network was turned away (after spending about $5,000 for cable charges...
...Last fortnight London University Psychologist James Arthur Hadfield solemnly suggested in the British Medical Journal that painless childbirth might kill a mother's love for her child...