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Word: commonwealths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy to see your notice and mention of Starr Commonwealth, and to find Uncle Floyd's picture in the Aug. 4 TIME . . . but I wish the school had been presented in a somewhat different light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...British delegate said he regretted that in all of Nokrashy's speech "there should have been no word of recognition of what the British Commonwealth, assisted by its allies, did for Egypt during the second World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egypt Asks British Troops to Leave | 8/12/1947 | See Source »

...grew older, he decided that some day he would adopt some children (though he had a wife and two kids of his own). In 1913, with $60,000 he had inherited, he bought 40 acres of rocky land just outside Albion, Mich, and opened the Starr Commonwealth school. The entrance requirements were the reverse of most prep schools': he wanted no boys of good reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Bad Boys | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Australia, Canada, China, France, India, The Netherlands, New Zealand, The Philippine Commonwealth, Great Britain and the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Can Japan Pay? | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

While the Harvard Club of Boston sought to recover over $15,000 in restaurant taxes from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the position of the various undergraduate eating clubs was not ascertainable yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Recovery Suit Leaves Local Club Positions in Doubt | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

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