Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nudist camp find it insufferably dull. They are diverted by nothing about it so much as the quiet but firm sway of the proprieties over groups that affect to live like nymphs and fauns. The truth of the matter seems to be that the average nudist is a puritan. . . . He notes with triumph that he experiences no wicked reactions to visions that are allegedly wicked. This indulgence may seem thoroughly absurd; but when the League of Decency sets out to have it pronounced immoral, is it not simply compounding an absurdity...
...University Hall is part of a temporary roof installed immediately after the war of 1812. Action to replace it with a somewhat more permanent protection for the learned pates underneath, although delayed for 122 years, has not been forgotten, and present officials hope to finish the work of their Puritan predecessors...
...Winthrop House gridmen yesterday won the house football title by sinking the Leverett eleven 18-0 while Dunster was holding Lowell to a scoreless tie. Joo Hindlo, who scored all three touchdowns, was the main spark of the Puritan offense. Kelly, a substitute fullback, also distinguished himself by his ability to gain ground...
...first tally came in the opening period on a plunge through the line. Leverett then tightened up until the last period, when the Puritan blocking began to click, paving the way for Hindle to score again twice, once on an eight yard run off tackle and once on a thirty-five yard cutback...
...preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent and otherwise well-informed persons than that concerning the manner in which the victims of the 17th Century Witchcraft Delusion perished, will you tell TIME readers exactly how many men and women, in all the American colonies, were ever burned for witchcraft? J. FRANK DAVIS...