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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like his confreres in the Northwestern backfield (Meenan, Potter, Olson, Rus-sell), big, blond Ernest ("Pugger") Rent-ner affects a nonchalance which some-times discourages Coach Dick Hanley. He lounges about the field at practice, bestirring himself less when he carries the ball than when he has a chance to perform a chore many footballers hate- blocking. After practice, he jumps a high wire fence at one end of the practice field at Evanston, a feat so precarious that Coach Hanley has considered making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the field, his number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

Leaders in the work are Professor Hans Kurath (German, Linguistics) of Ohio State University and Professor Miles Lawrence Hanley (English) of the University of Wisconsin, also a linguistic worker is Professor William Cabell Greet (English) of Barnard College and Columbia University, who has made many a phonographic recording to preserve in handy form the essential characteristics of U.S. dialects (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dialect Atlas | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Coach Richard Hanley's birthday week; his brother was on the team; he begged for victory. For 53 minutes his Northwesterners, unbeaten in their Big Ten games, outcharged, outkicked, held scoreless the great Notre Dame team. Twice they lost the ball inside the enemy 5-yd. line in the second period. Then, in the last period, Notre Dame's Schwartz got away and ran 28 yards to break the tie, and a little later Notre Dame's Dan Hanley made the score that beat Northwestern's Hanleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Left End Baker, leading Conference scorer, ran 30 yards to a touchdown; Right Halfback Hanley got one too, and Northwestern's unbeaten Wildcats, sticking mostly to line plays, drew nearer the Big Ten championship by beating Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 10, 1930 | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Trenton, Thomas J. Hanley, bus driver, did not mind when his wife: 1) hit him with a bottle, 2) kicked him out of bed, 3) ordered him from the house. 4) made him sleep on the floor, 5) accused him of extra-legal loves, 6) spied on him, 7) threatened to poison him, 8) tore his wrist watch off, 9) publicly insulted him. But when she shouted one day: "You're a common bus driver!", he sued for divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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