Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...competing for $144,000 in prizes in such bizarre categories as the best performances by a Swiss or a resident of New York State. The contestants included onetime Racing Car Champion Stirling Moss and a chimp named Tina, who was vying for honors as "most meritorious performance by a Commonwealth citizen." For all of them, the hardest part was not the flying but getting to and from the check-in stations atop the Empire State Building in New York and the General Post Office in London. Royal Navy Pilot Peter Goddard, who won $14,400 for the fastest performance (with...
...fastest overall growth in the 500 was posted by the conglomerates. Largely through mergers, one of them, California's Commonwealth United, increased sales by an astonishing 2,178%, to $153 million. Membership in the exclusive billion-dollar sales club increased by 21, to a total...
...passing sentence on Offner in East Cambridge District Court on Friday, Viola clearly indicated that it was the political context of Offner's act, rather than the act itself, which produced the extraordinarily harsh penalty. After the Commonwealth had recommended a sentence of six months for the assault and battery conviction, Viola gratuitously doubled the sentence for no apparent reason other than his own outrage at the act and, apparently, at the seizure of University Hall itself. Had Offner shoved a fellow student in the way that he is alleged to have shoved Watson, Viola would never have entertained...
McCarthy said, "I never understood that the Commonwealth had to prove its case perfectly, only beyond a reasonable shade of doubt...
...rebuttal, McCarthy pointed out that in considering motions for directed verdicts such as these, all facts are supposed to be taken in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, and that in this light...