Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard professor of Astronomy, a citizen of the United States and the commonwealth of Massachusetts, is now defending the right of all citizens to write and speak as they please. This is the position of Harlow Shapley, victim of the wildest horseplay that demagoguery and ignorance can combine to produce. John Rankin, Congressman, demanding that Shapley produce records of organizations that Shapley patently does not belong to, descended to mens' rooms tacties by forcibly seizing some of his witness' papers...
Bostonians might resent such darts if an outsider threw them. But Dahl hails from neighboring Quincy (pronounced-in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts-"Quinzy"), is accepted as one of the family. He started on the Herald in 1928 as a $20-a-week illustrator. By last week, on his 39th birthday, his bosses (who hand sonorous, syndicated Columnist Bill Cunningham $25,000 a year) had raised Boston's top local cartooner to $115 a week...
...dates for the blood bank drive sponsored jointly by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Phillips Brooks House are November 11 and 12, and not November 12 and 13, as announced in last Saturday's CRIMSON...
...volunteer service, whose merit attracted many during the war years, will reach out again for aid on November 11 and 12 when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Phillips Brooks House jointly conduct a blood bank drive. Anyone alive to events during the recent conflict, whether in or out of service, appreciates the value of the conveniently located blood bank, such is familiar with the rudiments of blood giving. Keeping abreast with the Armed Forces and many other states, Massachusetts is building up a blood reservoir which is on tap without cost to any resident of the State including those...
...Sabin took her new job seriously. Out to survey Colorado's health came two doctors from the American Public Health Association, backed by money from the Commonwealth Fund. They found that: 1) Colorado had the third worst record among the states in per capita deaths from scarlet fever, was almost as bad in diphtheria, pneumonia, infant mortality; 2) in five years more than 1,600 Coloradans (in a population of 1,123,296) had died unnecessarily of preventable diseases...