Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortnight ago the people of the Confederation of Switzerland voted on a proposal to grant cities and towns local option on the sale of hard liquors-beers and wines not being affected...
Last week the French Ministry of Fine Arts ordered all construction stopped on the Boulevard St. Michel extension of the Paris Metro. Engineers and workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that...
Lean, wiry Bacha Sakao, "The Water Carrier," bandit King of Afghanistan sat, unconcerned, in the capital city of Kabul last fortnight while the King he drove from the throne, plump, oily Amanullah, prestidigitated in far off Kandahar to show his fitness to rule...
Editor Pew had a report to make on Canton: "I can tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death...
...Federal Trade Commission also planned to call two more publishers, two more paper tycoons. The publishers are: Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...