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Word: puritan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Smoker is on the Winthrop House roster for this Thursday night. Homer Peabody '41 is arranging a liberal distribution of beer in the old Puritan tradition, and he plans to show both humorous and athletic movies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

NEITHER PEST NOR PURITAN-E. Berry Wall-Dial Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Dude | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...posterity, partly to fill the void left by the death of his wife (to whom he was devoted), Berry Wall, 77, began to write (entirely from memory) his memoirs. When he died last spring they were still unpublished. This week they were published under the title Neither Pest Nor Puritan. To read them was like reading a Proustian novel written not by Proust, but by one of his vacuous, arrogant characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Dude | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Individual star of the tournament was Dick pester of the Puritan team, who took first place in the discus throw, fifth in the javelin, and set a new House record in putting the 12-pound shot 49 feet 10 1/4 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Wins House Track; Eliot Second | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...brother of the famous athlete, Marshall "Ma" Newell '95, after whom Newell boathouse was named, has long been the motivating force of the New Jersey Harvard Club. Follansbee, who has attended "all but two or three" of the 43 Harvard Club meetings, commented that "if I weren't a Puritan, I'd say it was the best damn meeting we've ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horseplay Reigns As Foss Aids Alumni Who Flock To Harvard Club of New York Party | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

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