Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve men, honest and intelligent citizens of the Commonwealth of New Jersey, stood before a prisoner's dock on Monday night and, gazing steadfastly at a youth whose short existence has proved a muddle to himself and a menace to others, condemned him to death. Thus have they rid themselves of any popular conviction of injustice. In their opinion society will be better without the presence of this one disordered mind. No complaint, therefore, will arise from those who saw in the different outcome of a similar case in Chicago the absolute "miscarriage of justice". This court and its jurors...
...COMMONWEALTH...
...British Commonwealth of Nations...
...special vote of the Harvard Travellers Club, students interested in travel and exploration are invited to its first meeting. Dr. H. V. Harlan will speak on "Abyssinia" in room 3 of the Harvard Club, 374 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, at 8.15 o'clock tomorrow evening. Dr. Harlan will tell of the adventures of a caravan in Abyssinia...
...achievements and aspirations of the Repertory Theatre. Then His Honor, the Governor, was introduced from one box, and His Honor, the Corporation Counsel of Boston, from the other, and the two eminent gentlemen rivalled each other in intoning pleasing and congratulatory nothings about the theater on behalf on the Commonwealth and of the City. And the graduation day picture was completed at the close of the second act, when Mr. Jewett in response to polite applause after his somewhat pompous speech, advanced to the footlights and proceeded to recite a great many lines of heroic verse after the "Roll...