Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, gentle little man with big ears and dreamy eyes, he has the calm, sad face of a moonstruck mystic. The look is misleading. A Puritan in his personal life, abstemious, logical in argument, part Indian, part Italian, philosopher, archeologist, scientist, scholar, Lombardo is a man of power. No longer head of C.T.M. , he is still leader of the C.T.A.L., the loosely knit Confederation of Latin American Workers. That fact, last week, was the key to his mission...
Winthrop's hockey team stretched their domination of Yale-Harvard House competition to three years by subduing Davenport College, 2-1, at the Boston Skating Club yesterday. The outstanding Puritan club put on a show of excellent skating and accurate shooting to edge a Yale sextet for the third successive year...
Bill La Croix led the House six in this win by ramming both Crimson tallies into the Davenport net. His mates on the Puritan first line, Hal Tilman and Bill Butcher, both assisted in La Croix's first score, and Defense man Jim Anthrop aided his second dash in the closing minutes of the third period...
...second period see-sawed back and forth, Davenport rushes being stopped by the tough Winthrop defense man and Puritan advances being just as effectively controlled by a determined Yale defense. But it was in the third period that the Crimson House leaders displayed the offense that has been stopped but once this season...
More than 60% of the King James version of the Bible was lifted word for word from earlier translations, reported Charles C. Butterworth in The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible (University of Pennsylvania Press; $3.50). The sources: 19% from the Puritan influenced Geneva version of 1560; 18% from William Tyndale (d. 1536); 13% from Miles Coverdale's versions ; 4% each from the Wycliffe and Bishops' Bibles; 3% from other versions, including the Rheims-Douay Catholic Bible...