Word: brooklyn
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No.Name Class Age Position Address 13 Cole, G. L., Jr. '28 22 Right End Wollaston, Mass. 21 Davis, J. A. .'27 23 Center Kane, Pa. 17 Dooley, E. B. '27 21 Quarterback Brooklyn, N.Y. 34 Hardy, C. L. '27 22 Left Tackle Arlington, Mass. 14 Horton, N. M. '27 22 Fullback Peekskill, N.Y. 36 Holleran, J. H. '27 22 Right Tackle Roslindale, Mass. 35 Lane, M. J. '28 23 Left Halfback Melrose, Mass. 26 MacPhail, R. B. '28 22 Right Halfback Arlington, Mass. 32 Phillips, J. '28 21 Left Guard Upper Montclair, N.J. 9 Picken...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, thrice-elected Governor of New York, was nominated for the fifth- time by the Democrats. Everybody knows "Smiling Al"-he who was born where the crazy, criss-cross shadows of Brooklyn Bridge meet the East Side of Manhattan. Young Alfred was by nature an actor and orator, by trade a seller of fishes in the Fulton Fish Market, when one day in 1896 "Big Tom" Foley, Tammany chieftain, noticed a political gleam in his eyes. Alfred progressed-clerk in the commissioner's office, legislator, speaker of the Assembly, governor, presidential aspirant. The lower East Side sang...
...Manhattan, one John A. Bosmans 32, Dutch inventor from Brooklyn, exhibited a novel gasoline engine having no connecting rods, wrist pins or crankcase, but instead, hollow pistons fastened directly to the drive shaft at their centre, propelled by two firing chambers each, one above and one below. Inventor Bosnians claimed to have refused a million for his patents; threatened to revolutionize automobiles...
...feature of the Freshman defense was the playing of Waterman, a 210 pound tackle from Brooklyn Polytechnic School, who stopped practically everything that the first team sent on his side of the line...
...Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute-Diesel Engines...