Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highest price for a Stock Exchange seat occurred a fortnight ago (TIME, Sept...
...These cases have reached court at an opportune moment. All the main witnesses are conveniently at hand. In his cell at Michigan City, Ind., onetime Dragon Stephenson has been telling secrets with his eye on the prison gate. From his cell in Atlanta, Warren T. McCray returned home last fortnight, happy to be free, resolving to be good. He of all men can tell what passed between the Governors of Indiana...
...British press received with little comment and no protest the dogmatic assertion of Sir Arthur Keith, president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in session last fortnight at Leeds, that "Darwin was right," that men and apes had a common ancestor (TIME, Sept...
...fortnight ago the International Harvester Co. announced the addition to its list of three new contraptions. Inserted alphabeti- cally in the list, the new names would not be impressive. Looked at separately and thoughtfully, they appeared almost as epochal as the original McCormick reaper. They were...
What has been called "the cheerful insanity of Chicago politics" last fortnight achieved a convulsion that had long been promised. Mayor William Hale Thompson obtained the suspension of William McAndrew, superintendent of Chicago's public school system...