Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This somewhat nebulous office was held by Tuan Chi-jui from November, 1924, until his flight from Peking a fortnight...
...abed, the Duke, second son to George V., R. I., awaited anxiously the opinion of Sir Henry Simpson, husband of famed actress Lena Ash well, and accoucheur to royalty. Sir Henry Simpson had previously allowed it to become noised about that the Duchess would not be delivered for another fortnight. When he stated last week, that the royal birth was imminent, and that "a certain form of treatment"* had been resorted to after, consultation with other physicians, excitement and anxiety were rife among Britons...
...fortnight a snow-crowned protuberance of the earth in mid-Pacific rumbled and smoked and discharged flaming dragons of molten lava to writhe down and be drowned with great hissing in the sea. By the end of last week, all was quiet again. The dragons lay dead, their heads in the water. Little animalcules?human beings?swarmed about and ventured to walk on the monsters' cooling hides. One man?Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory?climbed high up on the protuberance?Mauna Loa, one of Hawaii's two active volcanoes and the largest in the world?...
...wholesome, upright, law-abiding students of Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh) were hurt?deeply and irreparably injured. Their beloved and respected head, Dr. Samuel Harden Church, in testifying against prohibition before the Senate Judiciary Committee last fortnight (TIME, April 26, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had implied that drunkenness and other evils existed among students universally and had failed to exclude his own Carnegie Tech from the condemnation...
There are five members of that subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee which for the past fortnight has had before it the subject of prohibition?Senators Harreld of Oklahoma,* Walsh of Montana, Reed? of Missouri, Goff of West Virginia, Means of Colorado. But all five are rarely present. Once last week only Senator Harreld was there, and he was lounging behind his home-town newspaper while serious-minded witnesses gave testimony...