Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evanston, 111., Michigan, beaten by Army a fortnight ago after
an unbroken string of 25 victories, was upset again, 21-20, by
in-and-out Northwestern.
After ripping off tackle on a 53-yard sprint a fortnight ago, Yale's Levi Jackson modestly confessed he couldn't have done it "if Columbia's right tackle had not been blocked out of the play." Last week, in studying the movies of the game (which Yale won 33-7), Columbia Coach Lou Little found out that Halfback Jackson was not quite right. The real explanation: in one of Columbia's modern, high-'frequency substitutions, only ten Columbia men had trotted on to the field. Columbia's right tackle, when Jackson got away...
...York Giant outfielder of mediocre talents, who had beetled off to join the ill-fated Mexican League in 1946, was suing baseball for $300,000-and challenging the whole system of "reserve clause" contracts which can bind a ballplayer to one club for his entire career (TIME, Feb. 21). Fortnight ago, while the World Series was going full blast, organized baseball quietly talked Danny into dropping his suit...
...bill to revise the Displaced Persons law is having a rough time. After passing the House by an overwhelming voice vote on June 2, it was submerged in Senator Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee until a fortnight ago, when it was exhumed while McCarran was off visiting his pal, Generalissimo Franco. Once on the Senate floor, it ran into a filibuster by Senator Cain, which broke up only when a motion for recommittal was passed by 36 to 30 with 30 absentees. The bill was sent back to languish under McCarran's loving care, at least until next January...
...managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water ran low and thirst high long before...