Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home Secretary was able to indicate that the situation in Rumania was completely quiet, last week, and that the 200,000 Rumanian peasants who marched to Alba Julia, last fortnight, and adopted resolutions protesting the despotism of the Rumanian Government were believed to be dispersing to their homes, after abandoning their project of a great protest march to Bucharest, Rumanian capital. ¶ Were astounded and chagrined by the charge made of His Majesty's Government that the oars now being used on lifeboats of the Royal Navy were purchased in the U. S. because prices there were lowest...
...General Fukuda were troops of the South China Nationalist Government established at Nanking (TIME, April 25, 1927). They recently advanced northward into Shantung in the course of their civil war with the North China Government of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-lin. When the Southern Nationalists captured Tsinan, last fortnight, they became "guilty" in Japanese eyes, because they allegedly committed certain atrocities in Shantung. So omniscient is Japanese efficiency that last week the Government at Tokyo placed on display photographs alleged to have been taken (by General Fukuda's order) of Japanese victims tortured to death at Tsinan. Male victims...
...Last fortnight, Lady Mary hovered over the landing field at Cape Town, almost afraid to come down and hear that her rival had reached London and the record before her arrival. When she landed, she received different news. Lady Sophie had left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical...
...Last fortnight, there was furious activity on the Thacher campus. Boys and girls, women and William Tatem Tilden II were playing and watching tennis from seven in the morning until seven in the evening. It was an annual affair; in previous years Maurice E. ("Red Comet'') McLaughlin, William ("Little Bill") Johnston, Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy (who won the women's singles for the eleventh time), and many another little Sutton and Bundy had battled for the Ojai challenge cups...
...Rockefeller Foundation, organized "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world," is headed by that distinguished after-dinner speaker, George Edgar Vincent, 64, who was formerly president of the University of Minnesota. Only last fortnight, another famed educator, Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago to become director of the new Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr. Mason is to have both administrative and research duties...