Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton Reference Librarian, Malcolm Young, submits figures which taken at their face value prove Princeton undergraduates bookishly inclined. In addition to texts required in courses ten per cent of the students take out two books weekly, 40 per cent average one book a fortnight, and the remainder read sporadically but a respectable amount...
Suddenly, a fortnight ago, the word "aluminum" burst into the headlines. The New York World was the first to put it there, whether simply as a brilliant idea or because it had advance knowledge that the word would soon get there. It was not scientific interest in the light and very useful metal which elevated it to the headlines; it was its connection with the name of Mellon, for the Mellons, headed by Andrew W., Secretary of the Treasury, have long been the leading factors in the great Aluminum Co. of America, and posting aluminum in the headlines...
...given a fortnight's trial. Everyone laughed at his huge head, his flamboyant whiskers, his enormous white cravat-at what was later called his "Blowitzerie...
...fortnight's trial with the Times lengthened into 30 years. Almost at once he leaped into the first rank of correspondents by his incredible power of wheedling secrets out of whoever happened to know them. If only the gods knew, it seemed as if they whispered to De Blowitz. As a tribute to his genius, the Times placed at his disposal the first exclusive cable wire ever leased by a newspaper. To this day the "beats" which he scored are unrivaled...
Such exploits rightly call for commemoration. A fortnight ago the London Times devoted two columns to an article celebrating the 100th anniversary of De Blowitz's birth...