Word: fortnights
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Sirens in Boston. The National League race, too, had been a thriller for most of the summer, but by contrast it was winding up as quietly as a Quaker meeting. For a fortnight it had been clear (to all but bitter-enders) that Billy Southworth's Boston Braves were too far ahead to be caught. This week the Braves clinched it -their first pennant since 1914. Boston's Acting Mayor Tom Hannon called for the blowing of sirens all over town...
Houses will probably start arrangements for the purchase and installation of the sets within the next fortnight when House committees are organized and start work...
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, onetime boss of the Reichsbank (and a convicted "major Nazi offender" released last fortnight by a German appeals court) got cautiously astride the Marshall Plan fence: "I rejoice over the willingness of the American people to help Germany ... To live from alms kills a man's dignity...
Checking Out. A fortnight ago Charles Porter, 52, locked his prettily furnished Washington apartment, and went to Clarksburg, W.Va., where he took a hotel room. He hardly stepped out of the room for four days, even...
...ticketseller at London's Sadler's Wells Theater, the words themselves made music: "Sorry, sir, no seats-we're a success." For a fortnight, Londoners had been flocking to hear the new opera of lanky Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16)-his fourth in four years...