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Word: fortnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last fortnight, irate, a Mrs. A. E. Spangler of Washington wrote to Southern Senators and said: "Where are all our distinguished statesmen and scholars, who know their South as they do their prayers, that this Charlie Chaplin of New York's east side, friend of the bootlegger and saloonkeeper, is invited to describe the achievements of the South at the dedication of this shrine to the South's greatest soldier? Are our men and women afraid to oppose the will of Tammany that they offer no protest to such an insult to the memory of General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Insult | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Last fortnight M. le Prefect of Paris Police Jean Chiappe released an interesting survey of the life of the gigolo based upon police investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gigolos | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Fascist financial magazine, Finanza (Rome), authoritatively proposed, last fortnight, that the State should establish a Marriage Bank. Purpose: to loan 10,000 lire ($527) to each laboring bachelor of good standing who may seek such a sum in order to marry, set up housekeeping, beget. Finanza proposed that repayment of the loan be made "automatically by a monthly levy on the husband's wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honeymoon Loans | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...religious conference at Barnet, Eng., last fortnight, The. Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, Lord Bishop of St. Albans said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bathtub Bishop | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...minstrels play a tune; the object is to sit quickly. In the last few weeks many members of the International Missionary Council, in all corners of the world, picked up their satchels and started going to Jerusalem. Their object was to meet in this ancient town and begin a fortnight's discussion of the problems of enlarging Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Going to Jerusalem | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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