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Word: brawne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student generation to which thumbs have more to do than pull out plums, six-foot, 20-year-old Stanley Fiese of Beloit (Wis.) was last week putting his 185 lb. of brain and brawn behind a helpful idea-Registered Collegiate Thumbers. A student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport (Iowa), he got the idea last May, thumbed his way around during the summer to enlist boys in several colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Thumbs Up | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...cello is the big, booming baritone of the violin family, and it takes a young and husky man to play it. From 17th-century Italian Domenico Gabrielli to 20th-century Russian Gregor Piatigorsky, successful cellists have been men of brawn. Lesser cellists, like Composer Jacques Offenbach, Composer Victor Herbert, and Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cellist | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...front last week for this year's goalie honors was Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson, 200 pounds of brawn, whom the Boston Bruins have had for ten years since they picked him up from the famed Minneapolis Millers. Aided by famed Defenseman Eddie Shore, the Bruins' No. 1 performer for the past twelve years. Tiny Thompson had up to last week chalked up six shutouts this season, had allowed only 81 goals to be scored against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Win, Place or Show | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...plays in the down-at-heel Hollywood Playhouse when Director John Ford, a neighbor, noticing his build and good-looks, suggested he be tested for the role of Terangi. Picked out of 160 candidates for the lead in his cousin's story, Hall found his brawn useful when battered daily in the Goldwyn tank by repetitious deluges of 2,000 gallons of water, thrown at him from a height of 65 feet, for his aquatic skill when he dived from the 70-ft. mainmast of a schooner, from a 75-ft. cliff, freestyled through the water while sharpshooters pumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...rather than fight"; and it is a pity that the team will travel no more to battle the Coast Guard or Virginia, because there are plenty of potential champions in line. Some of the Freshmen are really good, and plenty of skill as well as just beef and brawn are being exhibited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

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