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Word: meenan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith is president of Empire State, Inc.; chairman of the board of Lawyers County Trust Co., Meenan Coal Co. and Federal Broadcasting Co., and chairman of the board of trustees of the College of Forestry at Syracuse University: director of New York Life Insurance Co., Consolidated Indemnity and Insurance Co., Knott Corp., National Surety Corp., the Henry Street Settlement, Beekman Street Hospital and the Leauue of New York Theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Best Wishes & Best Wishes | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

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 »

...best intersectional game of the week, Ken Meenan, Northwestern's 190-lb. sophomore halfback, tore wide holes in a University of California, Los Angeles, line, scored two of the three touchdowns that gave Northwestern the game by a score -19 to 0-which did not do justice to Northwestern superiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...minutes after they started to play in Evanston, Northwestern had three touchdowns against Nebraska, two by Ernest ("Pug") Rentner, one by Ken Meenan. Nebraska struggled hard for the last three periods, scored in the second. Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone & party, who were booed from the stadium after the third quarter, thus saw all the scoring-Northwestern 19, Nebraska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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