Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortnight ago, the House passed a bill which affects the ears of more people than any other act of the present session of Congress. Last week the Senate twice refused to delay this bill by sending it back to conference. Passage loomed. "An Act," it is entitled, "for the regulation of radio communications...
...fortnight ago, in the course of his continued-in-our-next speech against Catholics, James Thomas Heflin of Alabama said in the U. S. Senate: "Monsignor Belford is a villainous and scurrilous little Catholic puppy up here in the State of New York, who edits or writes for a little sheet called The Mentor, and who suggests that a thug be hired to waylay and attack me. I could pinch his brains out between my thumb and forefinger...
...said some of the 162 letters from 24 states, the District of Columbia and three Canadian provinces, received within the past fortnight at Station WGY, Schenectady (N.Y.), studio of the General Electric Co., from which quizzes arranged by TIME are broadcast each Thursday night at 10:30 p. m., Eastern Standard Time, wave length 379.5 metres...
...fastened the hem of my skirt between my knees, put a cushion on the floor, shot my legs into the air, remained poised for a moment. Said I: 'There, you try that every day, and you won't have lumbago or heart trouble.' . . . And only a fortnight ago, I read in the papers that I had 'unmistakably' kicked my husband in the shins while he was escorting the President and Mrs. Coolidge at a charity ball last December. That was slow newsgathering, I think...
Famed U. S. architects such as the firm of Cram & Ferguson received within the past fortnight contracts for designs for eight chapels at European cemeteries where U. S. soldiers are buried...