Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Philadelphia, and has been ordered by his physician, to drop all business cares for a week or two, and remain out of doors. Consequently, it is probable that, notwithstanding his persistent assurances of its impossibility, Mr. Cook will be in the bow of the Yale lauch, during the next fortnight...
Harvard athletics are fighting against heavy odds, - the weather. The colleges further south have a great advantage over us in the length of the time they can employ in out-door practice. An additional fortnight of work on the diamond and the river, and even on the track makes a great deal of difference in the season's results. In base ball especially the first two weeks of out-door training are highly important in sifting out the valuable material and leaving the nine ready to begin serious work as early as possible. The teams will doubtless realize the disadvantage...
...House, and at last, through the interest which Mrs. Agassiz has taken in the movement, about $220 has been subscribed for the furnishing of a room and the expenses of men who undertake the work there. It is expected that students will live there for a week or a fortnight at a time, and their close association with the men will enable them to do much better work than would otherwise be possible. The Union has now been in existence a little more than a year, its work being confined almost entirely to education. There are now twenty-two classes...
Laboratory work in Botany I will not begin for a fortnight...
...very much the same plan in his "Darkest England." By planting these colonies in dreary regions, the soil has been greatly improved by the ploughing of the tramps. The number of colonists received at the twenty-two colonies up to October, 1891, is about 45,000. For the first fortnight the colonist serves for his food and lodging, and for the second fortnight he is credited with eight cents a day and later with thirteen cents...