Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clash. Japanese investors, who hold what amounts to a mortgage on the Nonni River bridge near Tsitsihar in northwestern Manchuria, were sorely vexed some weeks ago when it was blown...
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...
...grey-walled amphitheatre on Northwestern University's McKinlock (downtown Chicago) Campus last week a short, stocky, professor with a twinkle in his eye told how the deaf may hear through their fingers by means of an invention he had perfected. The profes- sor: Dr. Robert Harvey Gault, 57, for 22 years professor of psychology at Northwestern. The invention: the Gault Teletactor...
...Rentner helped Northwestern back up its claim to this year's Big Ten championship by smothering Illinois 32 to 6, with four touchdowns in the first quarter, one in the last...
...game was at Champaign, Ill., where a crowd of 35,000 was present for homecoming festivities and to see Illinois play Michigan. Michigan made a point for every thousand spectators, won by 35 to 0 -the worst beating an Illinois team coached by Robert Zuppke had ever sustained. Northwestern, favored for this year's Big Ten championship, bottled Ohio's best backs, gained 371 yd. from scrimmage, won, 10 to 0, with Rentner's touchdown, Olson's extra point and field goal. Minnesota swamped Iowa 34 to 0 and Indiana, in a feebly patronized game, beat...