Word: fortnights
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...glad to see your balanced comments on Wimbledon [TIME, July 4] ... There has never been a grander set of Americans than those who came over this year-good sportsmen, good players and good lookers, and all great favorites of the crowd. Ted Schroeder won our hearts in one short fortnight, and Louise Brough's courage and Gussie's panties kept the female flag flying high...
Democrat Irving has been the duly elected representative of Harry S. Truman and 250,000 other constituents of Missouri's Fourth District since last November. A fortnight ago, in a court suit, 85 members of his union suggested that he was also a crook...
Also among Hunt's professed friends was Major General Harry Vaughan, the President's military aide. His curious remark on the subject a fortnight ago was probably intended to be metaphorical, not a reference to any official; but it now bore the ring of prophecy. "Why pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt]," Vaughan had demanded, "when at least two major generals are in the same racket...
...battle of the courts was just another phase of New Dealer Chester Bowles's continuing war with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. A fortnight ago Bowles adjourned the legislature by proclamation, under a 131-year-old law never used before, to get the House out of his way. Then he appointed 129 judges and deputies to replace Republicans whose two-year terms were about to expire...
...Army's quartermaster office in Chicago, Uruguay's agents offered beef at $27.80 a hundredweight. Several days before the deadline, which was set for noon one day last fortnight, Army buyers assured them that it was the likeliest bid yet received. Taking no chances, Uruguayans in Montevideo phoned their Chicago agents 15 minutes before the deadline, told them to lower the offer to $27.63. That, said the Army, practically settled the deal; Washington would probably confirm it within half an hour...