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Word: fortnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leave town. So, members of the Caponi gang beat him up at a busy street corner, and kidnaped his brother for a few days. There was the killing of Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin last April, a crime that has not yet been solved. Then, a fortnight ago, a black armored car roared down Cicero's main street, spattered the Hawthorne Hotel with machine gun bullets, but missed King Caponi who was standing on the front porch. After such events, "Scarface Al" puts on his light tan shoes, picks up his cane, leaves town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Industrialists v. Twins | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...through the summer Midshipman Zirkle pondered his decision. In 1925 the rule had been made that every Annapolis man must serve two years as ensign after graduation (TIME, Feb. 9, 1925). A fortnight ago, Midshipman Zirkle reconsidered; Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur approved his commission. Then a few days later, at a conference with Secretary Wilbur and Rear Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, superintendent of the Naval Academy, he balked again, said he has a conscientious objection to continuing in the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strange Case | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...tides, take the radio compass bearings. It was work with which 18 years in the French navy, including four trans-Mediterranean air flights, had made him most familiar. He had brought over from France special instruments, contributed by the big corporation, Radio des Industries. After an annoying fortnight with U. S. customs officials, he had installed and tested his station while the ship's engines and flying gear were perfected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Cartwheel | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Cotton. Favorable weather has caused the Government crop reporting bureau to raise to 15,810,000 bales its estimate of the cotton crop now being picked, an increase of more than a half million bales over the estimate of a fortnight ago. This intelligence is not altogether pleasing to cotton planters, for cotton quotations in the principal spot markets are about 14? a pound, whereas last year, when the actual crop was little larger than the present estimate, the pound price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Oct. 4, 1926 | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...tests of admission have, until recently, consisted of a fortnight of gruelling examinations: however, in Scotland we are going to try a new plan much like your certificate system, by which a man will be admitted on the basis of his record time, but it may also give a fresh opportunity to men who may be read scholars, although not necessarily good writers of examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRITISH UNIVERSITIES FREE FROM ATHLETIC CURSE AND CATERING TO ALUMNI, SAYS IRVINE | 10/1/1926 | See Source »

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