Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Cincinnati "has drooped, malnourished industrially:" b) that it "has become bedraggled and dirty." Both sentences were meant in a comparative sense. Comparatively, Cincinnati has drooped, many another midland city having shown a far greater rate of industrial growth in the last 50 years. As to dirt, last fortnight the American Society of Heat and Ventilating Engineers ranked Cincinnati as second-sootiest of 24 large U. S. cities−sootier than Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland...
...widespread story, John Coolidge was last week more concerned over the publicity Deceived by Miss Sally Kunsig of Mount Vernon, N. Y., whom he often goes to see at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.) and who, after he had escorted her to Amherst's "senior hop" last fortnight, was hailed in the press as the successful rival of Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut's Governor...
...last fortnight, one man's voice was heard in the U. S. Senate for more than a solid hour. He told as horrid a story as the Senate had heard in years, a story of "dark evils of bloody warfare, sickness, suffering, hardship, privation, want and hunger. . . ." It was Senator Hiram Warren Johnson of California describing, not without politico-oratorical flourishes, the condition which Pennsylvania permitted its two-and-a-half-year-old coal strike to reach this winter (TIME...
...Last fortnight inquisitive investigators abruptly discovered that these events are listed in the official program with the men's events. Controversy flamed whether or not women's winnings would be totaled in the championship point score. To the U. S. particularly the issue is important...
...interior of Africa the fishing isn't much, so they tell elephant stories. The Uganda game department last fortnight told this one, protesting truthfulness. A hunter shot an elephant. It fell down a hill. Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps, died. Hunters rarely kill three elephants with one shot...