Word: fortnights
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...Last fortnight Borculo's efforts in aid of Warren reached a grand climax in four separate variety shows. With admission fees and the oliebollen sale at intermissions, they grossed 2,200 gulden ($830), more than twice what the committee hoped for. Even that, Borculo admitted, would not help much financially, but already the villagers had a scheme in mind to spend it so that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would...
Last July Mrs. Turley began feeling "queer." In October she consulted Dr. William Ellis Jr. At first he thought she had a tumor, but in December he heard the fetal heart beat and knew that she was pregnant. The baby was born prematurely a fortnight...
...Horyuji Monastery, is unheated and wretchedly uncomfortable in cold weather. So when government painters worked through the winter to copy the shrine's twelve famous murals of the Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from the temple's gracefully curved old roof...
Methodist Harris, elected Chaplain of the U.S. Senate to succeed the late Rev. Peter Marshall, who died last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 7), was back at an old post. From 1942 to 1947 he had served as Senate Chaplain, until Peter Marshall's appointment by a Republican Senate. Many of Washington's leading politicos, especially in Democratic ranks, are his intimate friends; his study bookcases are lined with photographs of a variety of celebrities, from Winston Churchill to Cinemactress Marsha Hunt...
Peiping, which General Fu Tso-yi had surrendered to the Reds last fortnight, was nervously expecting the Communists to take over. Anti-Communist signs had been hastily removed from walls; Communist proclamations appeared mysteriously instead. Policemen were especially polite-anyone in the streets might be a Red spy. Out of the open city gates, disarmed Nationalist troops marched by the thousands...