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Word: puritanized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winning its one remaining golf match, the Puritan team can move out of a triple tie for second into single owner of second place, thus picking up 13 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/19/1936 | See Source »

Last February onetime Professor George Santayana, 72, published his first novel (The Last Puritan-TIME, Feb. 3). Last week onetime Professor Alvin Johnson, 61, followed suit. But aside from their authors' profession, these two first novels had little in common. Spring Storm was not a novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nebraska Nonage | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

OBITER SCRIPTA-George Santayana-Scribner ($2.50). Collection of scattered lectures, essays, reviews by the onetime Harvard philosopher whose first novel (The Last Puritan, TIME, Feb. 3) made him a best-seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Under the directorship of Valentine J. Chapman, exchange student from England, "Lady Audley's Secret" has been prepared for revelation to a Puritan audience at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. Production will take place in the Junior Common Room. Ladies may be invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/24/1936 | See Source »

Academic peace and quiet of Winthrop was rudely upset last week by intermittent shrill squawks, driving several members from their books to a sleuthing expedition. The disturbance was traced to a balcony outside the window of a well-known Puritan pianist, upon which was perched a goose, evidently playing the role of fan mail. The goose has been removed, and members of the House go to their meals with an air of expectancy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/24/1936 | See Source »

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