Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary to change the fundamentally false attitude of the majority and the minority, too, is an adoption of the same policy for studies which is employed for play; "Athletics for all" must be paralleled by "Scholarship for all." Competition of brain must take its place by competition of brawn. Only so can the over emphasis on athletics, the sin of American colleges, be remedied...
Then began the slapping, spanking bout of brawn and brain. A sinewy limb slipped under an unprotected crotch, another encircled an unguarded torso, there was a sudden jerk forward, followed by a heavy fall, and Champion Lewis found himself pinioned beneath 250 pounds of his opponent...
Since the world began, big men have tried to justify their size by deeds of prowess, little men to prove that an ounce of agility is worth much ponderous brawn. In Newark, N. J., before a vast crowd, two men continued this controversy. Though the difference in their sizes was barely perceptible, one came into the lists as champion of the big men-Mike McTigue, the 160-pound, world's light-heavyweight champion. Mickey Walker, 149¾ pounds, world's best welterweight, stood up for the little men. They scuffled...
From 1908 to 1916, as coach of Harvard football, Percy D. Haughton created the system which made him one of the leading figures in the history of the game. His coaching did much to convert football from a contest of brawn to one of skill and brains. Quick thinking was the essence of it. From the first day of practice he grilled his men upon fundamentals. Rules were established covering every variety of situation, so that every player was instructed exactly what he should and should not do in each specific case...
...present dearth of technical knowledge blights her industrial development. But the day will come when inquiring spirits may question the economical and political bases of the system which nourished them. Then the proletarian whose passionate support made the Bolsheviki masters of Russia, and whose ranks supply the brain and brawn of the movement, may like Romulus and Remus, abandon the wolf who sucked them...