Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manufacturers of artificial refrigerators were distressed last fortnight by a report that two persons in Danbury, Conn., had been asphyxiated by "methyl chlorine" escaping from an artificial refrigerator (TiME, Oct. 25). They were distressed because...
...power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space.' As all my auditors knew, I had already perfected such beam-projection for directive radio communication. Last fortnight I received a postoffice certificate for shortwave 'beam' stations connecting England and Canada (TIME...
...bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami - all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little paper is not facetious. Every week it contains a good solid column by Arthur...
Cotton growers, tossed about by the wild selling market of a fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 25), regained their equilibrium during the last week, although many still remained, figuratively, on all fours...
...present the price gauge is 42c a pound. But rubber has been selling slightly below this. So restrictions of 20% were again enforced a fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 1) to endure at least through January...