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...clincher came near the end of the game when center Jim Merkle intercepted a Puritan desperation pass on the Winthrop 35 and ran it over the goal line behind timely blocks by Bill Boucher and Joe Domenie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Continue Undefeated | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

This strategy scored Frank Hernberg on a 20-yard run after a 40-yard opening game march. Thorpe Kelly's interception set up the second Puritan touchdown, a ten-yard sprint by Pete Brooke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Beat Bunnies, 12-6; Kirkland Edges Dudley, 7-0 | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

Though Kirkland lost its first game, it turned in a very creditable performance against Winthrop. The Deacons were able to roll up considerable yardage through the rugged Puritan defense, and its own line yielded only one touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop, Kirkland Favored In House Grid Games Today | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...month after graduation, she worked in Stern's Department Store. Then she got a job teaching at Manhattan's Todhunter school for girls. She taught Cavalier and Puritan poetry and early English literature, "with Beowulf tucked in." In seven years she became one of the best teachers the school had, and when she went on to Columbia for her degree (John Bigelow was written for her Ph.D. dissertation), she did so well that other teaching appointments began to come easy. She was the first woman in the history department of New York's City College, went next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Samuel Parris took the ministry of tiny Salem Village in 1689, he brought with him two dark-skinned slaves he had picked up while trading in Barbados. One of the slaves, an ageless woman named Tituba, became the darling of Salem's teen-age girls. In a stern Puritan community that shunned amusement, Tituba's stealthy demonstrations of West Indian voodoo could be wonderfully thrilling. But to children like Betty Parris and her cousin Abigail the shows also brought spasms of guilt, for they were convinced they were trafficking with the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ye Old Boy | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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