Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Olympic Games well-publicized as high-strung, hard-boiled contests of national brawn, the fact that the original Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could...
...Smarting, little St. Mary's next year hired a young Notre Dame graduate, Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madian, as football coach. Slip Madigan began to turn out teams which, since 1924, have won 86 and tied seven of their 114 games against some of the best football brains & brawn in the U. S. In 1928 the Brothers felt so good they sold the College's old Oakland site for $750,000, borrowed $1,500,000 on a bond issue to ld a big new plant in nearby Moraga Valley. On July 1, 1934 St. Mary's bond holders...
...contact work, a program consisting of intensive work on the tackling dummies, defensive drill against Army plays, and offensive dummy scrimmage gave proof that there was no letting up behind the Varsity practice fence. Throughout the defensive drill, the coaches emphasized the superior effectiveness of brain over brawn stopping a tricky attack...
Netherlands' girl athletes have not yet outclassed the U. S. in events which require grace as well as brawn. Bright blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill last week retained her title at platform diving. Springboard diving championship went to Marjorie Gestring, 13-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl...
Taking no chances, Scotland Yard operatives of great brawn courteously and quietly pressed the veterans back, saw to it that His Majesty's pace was accelerated until he was clear of his well-wishers. Sudden rain, after the tea was half over, sent the King scurrying to the Palace for cover. At this the 5,000 Canadians, not knowing that English folk in similar circumstances usually take shelter under trees, dashed pell-mell after him into Buckingham where one astounded Palace flunky in scarlet & gold was heard to say to another, "It's like the bloody Revolution!" When...