Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With thousands of thirsty U. S. citizens poised expectant along the U. S.-Ontario border, the Ontario Liquor Commission last week announced that it might be another fortnight before liquor sales began in the Province. Legally, however, Ontario last Monday became wet, added a new aspect to the U. S. liquor question...
...Avoyelles flood came from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...Commons did not repeat last week its orgy of personal revilement of a fortnight ago (TIME, May 16). Instead steady filibustering by Laborites was pursued to the extent of offering some 350 destructive amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
...Imperial Government completed triumphantly last week a fortnight of incessant labors to alleviate the Japanese panic (TIME, April 18 et seq.). Since extraordinary legislation seemed requisite, His Imperial Majesty Tenno Hirohito convoked in haste the first Parliament which he has opened since his ascension to the throne (TIME, Jan. 3). Bills were rushed through and signed by the Tenno, authorizing the Bank of Japan to extend swift aid to banks threatened with a "run." Finally, the new Premier, Baron Tanaka, secured the appointment of Junnosuke Inouye (perhaps the most internationally prominent Japanese banker) as Governor of the Bank of Japan...
Like most impromptus, an international exposition of music which opened and held forth in Geneva, Switzerland, last fortnight without the elaborate preliminaries that usually precede international events, was hailed across Europe as something which must be often repeated, whatever it may next time lack of spontaneity...