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Prof. Blood well knew the prowess of the Hackensack fellows, each one over six feet high. He well knew that this team, of all the opponents of Passaic, did not shiver with stage fright when they confronted the "invincible" Passaicians. Therefore Hackensack was hated and feared in Passaic. "We'd rather lose to any team than Hackensack," said Krakovitch, Russel, Rohrback, Adams, Pashman, reassuring their followers. These followers groaned when Bollerman (six feet six inches), Hackensack centre, tipped the ball to a Hackensack forward who passed it, caught it, passed it, caught it, spun it into the basket...
...parties go. But Senator LaFollette is no longer young; and the leadership of his movement, if it is to continue, must pass into younger hands. It is dubious whether Senator Wheeler can successfully carry it-he has exhibited more fighting than building ability. Senator Brookhart has received a bad fright...
Grey From Fright...
...Galveston, Mutt, a black and tan Airedale terrier, chained on the running board of a car, was missing after the car had been wrecked and its occupants killed, was found near his home with his coat turned grey from fright...
...residential section. An element in the parish desired to get control for purposes not entirely spiritual. Failing to dominate the rector, they decided to oust him and last year seized upon his theology as a pretext and charged him with heresy. The Bishop-one Harry Moore-apparently took fright at the storm of protest from beyond the borders of Texas and "quashed" the heresy proceedings on the ground that certain Northern Bishops were as liberal as the rector. But the Bishop left the stigma of heresy upon the rector, and sided with the disgruntled section of the parish in attempting...