Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begun to get fatter, felt miserable, wanted to see his wife and three children. So he took a baggage car across the country. Home, a baggage truck transported him from train to hospital, where the institutional derrick hoisted him to bed. He had gained 100 pounds in the fortnight of illness. Doctors say his mortal half-ton died of myocarditis, dropsy and suffocation of the heart...
...Dayton, Ohio, last fortnight, Chemist C. F. Adams claimed to have converted hydrogen into helium by a process analogous to that by which he and others claim the transmutation of mercury into gold?bombarding the atoms with electricity. If practicable on a large scale, this process would greatly facilitate the preparation of helium for airship bags. It is now obtained chiefly by difficult fractional distillation of the inert gases found in certain metallic ores and in the natural gas wells and mineral springs of Kansas, Texas and the Pyrenees...
...Last fortnight Captain Frankau traveled to St. Louis. It seemed a good place to proclaim what sound old Tories were thinking over their port in the London clubs. Incidentally, a convention of U. S. booksellers was in session there, to whom Frankau, who maintains that the national significance** of his novels has impressed "every one who can read in the British Isles," would just say a word...
...Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.)-triumph. A fortnight ago, her pride, her young Demosthenes, her handsome Maurice ("Red") Robinson journeyed to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) with his elocution coach, Professor W. N. Brigance, for the National Contest of the Interstate Oratorical Association, for which he had qualified by winning the Indiana state contest (TIME, March 1). Other doughty state champions were there at Evanston: a forceful South Dakotan with an oration on prohibition; a West Virginian propounding that "Science Has a Rendez-vous"; an lowan primed to deliver "Cat and Cattle." But none was so shrewd, none so compelling as Hoosier...
Last week the American Society for the Control of Cancer (370 Seventh Ave., New York City; Dr. Howard C. Taylor, president; Dr. George A. Soper, managing director) girded itself for renewed educational propaganda. Last year it spent about $60,000 on its work. A fortnight ago John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave it $135,000. But it needs $1,000,000 as an endowment fund. This it will...