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...minutes later, after a 40-yd. march to Pitt's 18-yd. line, Minnesota sprang the "Sunday play"-a double lateral pass followed by a forward. Lund to Tenner-that it had saved for just such a crisis. The touchdown won the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 29, 1934 | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Minneapolis, Northwestern's Right Halfback Pug Rentner ran into Minnesota's Left Halfback Pug Lund, who passed to Tenner for a touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...money back if the Liberals win 84 seats, and would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Much for Lloyd George? | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...night down in Santiago when the Colonel bummed a drink of my whiskey and I wrapped him up in a tent and put him to sleep on the top of a bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys of '98 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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