Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Bunyan, whose great work is as famed as Richard Hooker's is obscure. The zealous tinker, who won his youthful struggle against the sins of swearing, Sunday afternoon games and dancing, spent twelve years in the filth and squalor of Bedford jail for refusing to stop his "unlicensed preaching." But it was probably during a second, briefer imprisonment, in 1675, that he "fell suddenly into an allegory" and produced his well-known work, Pilgrim's Progress...
Robbed: ex-Showgirl Patrice Amati Runyon Coffin, ex-wife of the late Damon Runyon, and her husband Richard Coffin, New Bedford printer; of some $200,000 (her estimate) worth of jewels...
Goals in the second and fourth periods proved margin enough as Poley Guyda's Freshman soccer team clung to its undefeated record with a 2 to 1 win over New Bedford High School yesterday at the Business School Field. After the game the Yardlings elected James Gabler 151 of Matthews Hall and Jamaica, N.Y. as captain for the 1947 season...
...Freshmen jumped off to a quick lead in the opening minutes of the second period when Sherry Houston tapped in the rebound of a shot which inside Jim Johnson caromed off the cross bar. A minute later left inside Oscar Gordon of the New Bedford team slammed in a scofe from a mad scramble which resulted after a corner kick...
There was no doubt that domineering, salt-crusted Patrick J. McHugh had tight control over Massachusetts' fishing fleet. The 4,200 members of his independent Atlantic Fishermen's Union manned practically every sizeable trawler, dragger and gill-netter that sailed out of New Bedford, Gloucester and Boston. The union had its own selling rooms in Gloucester and New-Bedford, and dictated who could and who could not buy there...