Word: hackensack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hackensack, N. J., one Willie Schaeffer, who calls himself "the strongest man," held two airplanes on ropes, one in each hand, and kept them down though they were roaring to get up. ¶ In Wiesbaden, Dr. Alexander Alekhine won his fourth straight game from E. D. Bogoljubow, needs only two games out of the required series of 30 to keep the world chess championship. Said he: "Even the most confirmed opponent of the contention that the game is threatened with death through draws, could not have hoped for such a development." Play will be continued next week at Heidelberg...
Died. Dr. Edward Beech Craft, 47, of Hackensack, N. J., electrical engineer and apparatus inventor, executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; at Hackensack...
...Hackensack, N. J., a robber entered the home of one Alexander A. Altschuler, stole 14 suits of clothes and prepared to leave. In leaving, he woke Mrs. Alexander A. Altschuler who said sleepily, "Where are you going?" "Downstairs, my dear," said the robber softly. Supposing the robber to be Alexander A. Altschuler, Mrs. Altschuler went to sleep; the robber went downstairs and far away...
Nothing was the matter with 19-year-old John Webb. He felt fine, had good appetite, was merely taking his 612-lb. self to visit friends in Hackensack...
From their gay, Gothic home beyond the Hackensack meadows they come the young visitors. The square is filled with them. Orange and Black mingles with sober crimson in the store windows. Spectators speculate; trefoil frailties and the Yard gendarmes reminisce quite audibly. One might call it Indian summer--but the House of Hanover could not brook that...