Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week seemed the Ontario Oasis which last fortnight (TIME, May 23) beckoned so invitingly to parched U. S. throats. Ontario had gone wet, Ontario was easily accessible, many a U. S. citizen planned Canadian weekends, magnificently moist...
...Major Harold A. Strauss, who was in command of this unfortunate blimp, recalled that another blimp of his had exploded on the same spot in 1922, that still another in his command had been torn loose from its moorings and wrecked by a gale in Leavenworth, Kan., only a fortnight ago. "A jinx," said...
...Millwick, at Belmont Park, N. Y., in last week's Hempstead Handicap race. Millwick was not traveling very fast, but the spectators had a feeling that he would win. They had confidence in famed Jockey McAtee. He had ridden Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory the fortnight before in the Kentucky Derby...
Seismograph needles, the world over, jumped wildly a fortnight ago. So violently did the earth tremble that many a seismograph was jarred out of commission. One of the severest shocks in years had occurred and scientists pictured one of history's worst disasters in its wake. That evening they expected to find the press full of hideous headlines-cities razed, thousands killed, islands submerged, raging fires...
Elephants, Lions. Having been captured by savages at Mallicolo in the New Hebrides and rescued by a British warship, having made friends with elephants and lions in Eastern and Central Africa, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson arrived in Manhattan a fortnight ago with 200,000 feet of film and 7,000 still pictures for the American Museum of Natural History. Headquarters for their three-and-a-half-year's animal observations were on the shores of a lake on the Abyssinian border, which they named Lake Paradise...