Word: raritan
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...resorts. Commuters on the Pennsylvania's gritty Jersey Shore line spend five minutes there every trip, buried in their newspapers or staring glumly at a shabby luncheonette across from a tavern while the electric engine is changed for a steam locomotive. Sprawled along the estuary of the Raritan River, just across the bay from the south tip of Staten Island, South Amboy exists as a kind of service entrance to the Port of New York, and it gets service-entrance traffic: coal, fertilizer from its own American Agricultural Chemical Co. (locally known as the "Stink House") and recently...
...Little Red Cannon belongs to the Rutgers football team that won it the hard way," says the Targum. Mulling over the scores of the only two games the boys from the Raritan have played in the Stadium, they point out that Harvard can have no claim to the cannon as a victory trophy. The theft of the tradition-cloaked cannon "reflects disrespect on all students of Harvard University," concludes the Targum...
Personal Aim. In Raritan Township, N.J., Albert Robinson, haled into court for throwing rocks at Eugene Michael's car, pleaded not guilty, declared: "I didn't throw rocks at the car; I threw them at Michael...
...reassuring note is the band, which remains undefeated in all competition. Resplendent in new three-button crimson jackets, the Soldiers Field "Symphony" spelled out an eight-yard "Welcome Rutgers," and the men from the banks of the Raritan proceeded to make themselves at home...
...stands, who will merely have to look on their cards to see which color is appropriate for their positions. Another signal and the Harvard side of the Stadium will metamorphose from a sea of drab overcoats into waves of color, depicting "the banks of the old Raritan," bears, bulldogs, or what-have...