Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Gold Coasters and a lone Puritan complete the stellar eleven, and the Adams trio again provides a clue to their spot the final standing. The under-manned but never out-fought Gold Coast crew took on all comers successfully, except for the invincible Elephants...
Kirkland continued to control the ball for the rest of the half, but, despite the efforts of Tom Lynch, they were balked by the stubborn Puritan line bulwarked by Tackle Ronald Garvey...
Meanwhile the big Eliot line stifled the Puritan attack and has kept its end zone unsullied for the whole season to date. With Backs Hy Brodgen and Bill Garrett and Guard John Wolf benched by injuries from Tuesday's clash, the Navy team was excusing itself after the game, for not running up a bigger score...
...France's more delightful postwar fracases started last July, when gaunt, puritan Finance Minister René Pleven (a nonsmoker) refused to issue tobacco ration cards to women, implied that it was improper for them to smoke, anyway...
Cameron Forbes, football player. Harvard coach, farmer, financier and onetime Governor of the Philippines, was a model for Oliver, central character of Santayana's novel The Last Puritan. He wrote somber poetry, which he showed to Santayana; it was not well composed "but the thought was so original, so wise and so courageous, that nothing in Emerson has ever pleased me more." A grandson of Emerson, Forbes was like Santayana's other Boston friends whose lives illustrated the decline of the age of great merchants. "They were in one sense its ripe fruits, but in another sense they...