Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accustomed to imperfection, the world marvels when a paragon of physical attainment adds to his fame some demonstration of high mental capacity. "Brains and brawn," the newspapers call it, an old story but rare enough to command human interest in a lopsided world...
...High-B" Accustomed to imperfection, the world marvels when a paragon of physical attainment adds to his fame some demonstration of high mental capacity. "Brains and brawn," the newspapers call it, an old story but rare enough to command human interest in a lopsided world...
...main trouble with football is that it has yielded to the spirit of commercialism. It is the most dramatic of sports, and the box office has capialized its opportunities. All the major evils against which college authorities complain in football--over-training, the tendency to develop brawn at the expese of brain, in short, athleticism at its worst--are the direct result of introducing the commercial spirit into the colleges, where it has no proper place. It is the commercial spirit that needs to be attacked, not football itself Oust commercialism and save football for its many beneficial qualities--this...
...Titanic column of brawn astounded sportsmen, last January (TIME, Jan. 19), by downing the mighty Ed ("Strangler") Lewis in Kansas City, thus acquiring the world's heavyweight wrestling championship...
...Wayne B. Munn," said Coach W. E. Lewis of the University wrestling team is physically more than we had anticipated. He is a splendid type of the big man, and he has brawn, not beef. He has a charming personality, a clean cut American. He talks like a trained thinker, probably because of his college education...