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Word: fortnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astrologer of Oklahoma City, revealed that Governor Johnston had consulted him frequently during the impeachment proceedings. Astrophysical phenomena can cause no end of things "from short skirts to foaming-at-the-mouth legislatures," said Mr. Lewis. Perhaps he was thinking of two Oklahoma legislators who paused in debate, last fortnight, to threaten each other with paper cutters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ewe Lamb Rebellion | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 14), one Francisco Fimores, Mexican rancher of Douglas, Ariz., led into Mexico a small force of men. He sought Apache Indians who, in 1926, had killed his wife, kidnapped his son. Last week, U. S. soldiers and cattle men gathered along the Mexican frontier, prepared an expedition to rescue Mr. Fimores, from whom no word has been received. A member of his band, however, had been found alone and delirious. It was feared that the avenging band had been surprised and slaughtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mexican Manhunt | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Spurred by reform-hating, fanatically religious Mullahs, the rebels again surrounded Kabul on three sides, last week, after having been repulsed last fortnight to a distance of 40 miles (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Back to Barbarism! | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...dictature set up in Jugoslavia last fortnight by King Alexander and General Petar Zivkovitch, Commander of the Royal Guards (TIME, Jan. 14) assumed, last week, the powers of Absolutism, if not Despotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: 'Alexander the Absolute | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Arriving home in Atlanta, the Georgia Tech football team which last fortnight defeated the University of California received an ovation described as greater than that tendered to the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding or famed Golfer Robert Tyre Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Briefs | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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