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...Crimson, however, controlled the second half. Its lone tally came with 14:51 left in the game when Sue Field, constantly exerting pressure, notched her fifth of the year with a chip past Eli netminder Martha Finney...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen Stung by Yale, 3-1, Amid Complaints of Officiating | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...predecessors belonged to a fiercer school of Gospel-booming sockdolagy: back-country camp-meeting divines, like Charles Finney, exhaling vivid damnations and, later, out of the '20s, Billy Sunday, in white spats and straw skimmer, ranting indictments of "hog-jowled, weasel-eyed, sponge-columned, mush-fisted, jelly-spined, four-flushing Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Country-Grown Candide | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

DIVORCED. Albert Finney, 42, English stage and film actor (among his movies: Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express); and Anouk Aimée, 46, French actress (A Man and a Woman); after eight years of marriage; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1978 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...world were growing religious." But the social consequences of religious zeal were more dramatic during the "Second Awakening," which took place more than half a century later. The network of organizations then created became known as the "Evangelical Empire." Passionate and practical reformist crusading by Lawyer-Preacher Charles G. Finney and his allies helped produce the early feminist movement, the Civil War and the abolition of slavery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...senior partner of the Washington law firm Clifford, Glass, McIlwain & Finney, Clifford, 70, still works full time and earns an estimated $1 million a year, mostly from his corporate clients. Tightly self-disciplined, Clifford never loses his temper, never drinks, and smokes no more than three cigarettes a day. He allows himself only 20 minutes for lunch at a Y.W.C.A. cafeteria near his office and a few hours each weekend for a round of golf at the Burning Tree Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Democrats' Mr. Fixit | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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