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Word: brawn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pair of seniors, "Sonny" Liston and Leckie, will team brain with brawn as the third defense tandem...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Harvard's 'D' Still Rates High Marks | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

...billed as a classic "must win" confrontation for both squads, a battle which would pit brawn against brains, ability against spirit, and raw power against clever cunnery in a key mid-season intramural House football clash between unscathed squads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Topples Winthrop, 12-6; Eliot Wins | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

...said that being a student was all brain and no brawn...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Raindrops Keep Falling... | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

...sound, many scientists feel that blacks have some physical advantages too. Alvin Poussaint, a black psychiatrist who is dean of students at Harvard Medical School, attributes these advantages to the grim selectivity of slavery. Says he: "First of all, they selected for slavery only those with a lot of brawn and ability to work hard: only the best. Second, only the strongest survived the long voyage. We may already have a very selected group of blacks in this country." While recognizing that great physical differences exist between members of the same race-as is notably evident when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Black Dominance | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...answer. When placed against his greatest rival, Frazier, Ali was not only the floating butterfly and the stinging bee, but also the brain versus the brawn. The same was true in the Ali-Foreman fight...

Author: By Sandy Cardin, | Title: Boxing Gets Up Off Canvas | 3/23/1977 | See Source »

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