Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge: "You can do anything you like here [New York] provided you don't get caught." Said President Coolidge to Governor Smith: "Well, I'll take a chance." Such, newsgatherers discovered, was the nub of the conversation when, last fortnight, Governor Smith ascended from his 15th story room in the Biltmore Hotel, Manhattan, to welcome President Coolidge, who was stopping on the 17th floor the evening he addressed the United Press (TIME, May 2). ¶ In a Safe in the office of the U. S. Department of State reposes...
Gustav Cardinal Piffl, was en route sedately down the Ringstrasse in Vienna, last fortnight, when a newspaper blew from a housetop and enveloped suddenly the head of His Eminence...
Hankow. The parent Southern Nationalist Government at Hankow seemed to be disintegrating rapidly last week. Only a fortnight ago the U. S., Britain, Japan, Italy and France delivered a joint note to Eugene Chen, Foreign Minister of the Hankow administration. But last week Mr. Chen was said to have fled to a hospital maintained at Hankow by French nuns...
...fortnight ago, judges sat to scrutinize creations submitted for the annual exhibition of the Royal Academy. To them came one John Taylor, 74, London sculptor, carrying a small object swaddled thickly...
...fortnight ago Dr. Frederick M. Allen of Morristown, N. J., told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology of "myrtillin," vegetable extract which Dr. Richard I. Wagner, also of Morristown, had isolated after mulling over many a hundredweight of Maine huckleberry leaves (TIME, April 25). At the meeting of the American Association of Physicians in Atlantic City, May 3, and at 'the convention of the American Medical Association in Washington, May 20, Dr. Allen expects to give more ample reports on "myrtillin...