Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard should have at least four years of it, otherwise the girls will be getting ahead of us. The women are evidently going to supply the brawn while Harvard supplies the brains. But that is hardly brain-worthy of Harvard. The Vassar girl was right when she saw the humpbacked undergraduate body at Harvard and remarked that "Harvard men look so stoopid...
...aspiring grapplers except members of the Varsity team will have a chance to test their brain and brawn in the University championship wrestling matches to be held next week in the Wrestling Room of the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...
Looking it all over, then, Harvard is going to have a lot of well-trained football brawn to stop if the long victory yell is to be heard in the Stadium this fall when the dusk of a Saturday evening is dropping down on Cambridge. There is a lot of backfield material available; the line squad may overcome its lack of experience and toughness and start working as a unit. The job now rests will Messrs. Casey, Walsh, Fesler, and Lane, who form one of the most capable staff the Crimson has had in years. So while there's life...
...grand party enlivened by song and dance and barrels of whiskey, the brawn of many arms rolled new-cut logs to the centre of a clearing and piled them up to make a cabin. The first law passed by Congress was, it happened, a tariff bill. Since then methods of home construction A dunner was referred to the Embassy...