Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conqueror of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek, who was chosen President last fortnight, assembled last week an all star Cabinet in which every name is picked with potency...
Diagonally across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last fortnight went an insult to Philadelphia. From Erie, at the farthermost corner of the state, came the announcement that the United Lutheran Church of America would not convene in Philadelphia at the next biennial assemblage (1930). The reason for the snubbing of Philadelphia was the "graft scandals" of recent development. Milwaukee, free of graft scandals, was chosen instead...
...Claremont Colleges, which is the name of the central mediating organization acting between the two individual colleges. Dr. James A. Blaisdell, onetime president of Pomona, is now president of this organization. Dr. Charles Keyser Edmunds, onetime president of Lingnan University, Canton, was inaugurated president of Pomona last fortnight...
...Sears Roebuck stock, less spectacular, has not lagged behind the advance. From a low of 51 in January, 1927, it climbed to a 1928 high, last fortnight...
...William Archibald Spooner, onetime warden of New College, Oxford, celebrated last fortnight his golden wedding anniversary. He has long been aware that he is the cause of the appearance of the word "spoonerism" in the Oxford English Dictionary. A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only...