Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last fortnight, The Pathfinder, nonpartisan, homefoiks' weekly published in Washington, published the results of a. poll of its readers (chiefly rural) in 48 states. The standing-Hoover 233,315; Smith, 197,408. Electoral votes represented-Hoover, 321; Smith...
...Last fortnight, grey-haired Robert J. Cuddihy, the amiable, able, Irish, Roman Catholic publisher-manager of the Digest, announced a bigger & better "straw vote." Postcard ballots went "sifting silently through the mails" to some 19,600,000 names and addresses...
Trip to Last Fortnight...
...General Electric laboratory at Schenectady last fortnight people peered at the small 3" x 3" screen of Dr Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson's television receiving set. They were waiting for the performance of the first playlet broadcast by television. It was J. Hartley Manners' The Queen's Messenger. There being only two parts, there were only two actors...
...three times the total of Jan.-Aug., 1927. The 12½-hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight, carries the service to Guadalajara, Mexico...