Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form a public service corporation to dredge and operate the New York canal free of charge in return for certain waterpower rights. Mr. Bowen's offer received little attention, but debate on the New York v. the St. Lawrence route occupied much time in Washington committee rooms last fortnight, developed into a hot sectional fight, the Midwest turning out with surprising unanimity to favor the St. Lawrence route...
Deadlocked Giants. The intrigues of a fortnight ago, by which France and Britain strove to force the admission of Poland, the ally of France, to a permanent League Council seat, which would counter-balance the proposed German seat (TIME, March 22), had by last week assumed most discouraging proportions due to the tenacious refusal of the Germans to endure any such "balancing" against them...
...fortnight ago. This announcement was inadvertently omitted from last week's TIME...
...flight was made in January over Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.). Newspaper reporters, having attended the uneventful christening party the fortnight before, took no notice when Lieutenant O. B. Anderson piloted the ship from her hangar and pointed her nose aloft. They did not hear how, warned by radio of approaching high winds, the RS-1 interrupted a flight of four hours and made for home; how, when she settled earthward and was being dragged indoors with ropes, the northwest wind so increased that she was buffeted about like a dory in breakers, until Lieutenant Anderson ordered the engines started...
Among the treasure-hunters was Charles W. Lind, an employe of the N. Y. Telephone Co. One of the men in the company had won a smaller treasure hunt the Evening World had held a fortnight before. Lind was bound not to be outdone and pondered hard over the clues. Reaching Union Square, he was still saying to himself, "Hmmmm, branch of the government . . . symbolical . . . army? Nope, not symbolical. . . . Pork barrel? Nope, too many letters. . . . Hmmmm...