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...second score was not up by Fritz Lehman, Puritan right guard, who fell on an Eliot fumble. Davenport again carried the spheroid into pay dirt. In spite of the efforts of George "Running" Waters, the Elephants couldn't reach enemy territory throughout the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Beat Eliot; Commuters Also Win | 10/18/1940 | See Source »

...deep-bitten protestant is a rebel in any language. America has seen many such: among the still memorable ones, Rev. John Wheelwright who, with his sister-in-law Anne Hutchinson, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for feeling good;* and Rev. Henry Ward Called Antinomianism by Puritan divines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Carpenter and Johnny Lowell, outstanding Puritan linesman, sparked their team to eight first downs to none for Leverett, but, led by Irving Fried, stellar guard, the Bunny line repeatedly tamed the Puritan backs when they threatened to score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS TOP LEVERETT, 6-0 | 10/11/1940 | See Source »

...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 »

...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 When he died last spring they were still unpublished.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 »

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