Word: hoboken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and vases broke...
...days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...
...smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last week the throne went on view, along with some 40 other objects, in Manhattan's Arden Gallery...
Unexpected resistance met the Varsity lacrosse team Saturday afternoon when they lost 3 to 1 to the Stevens Institute ten from Hoboken, New Jersey. In less than a week the stickmen will face Dartmouth in one of the hardest games of the season, and the Stevens match did not find the Crimson up to mid-season form...
Coach Skip Stahley has been highly pleased with his squad's practice sessions this week and expects his men to make a creditable showing this afternoon against the ten from Hoboken, New Jersey...