Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Holy Cross brawn will outweight the Harvard line by seven pounds per man, latest odds have the Crimson seven and a half point favorites...
...safe prediction that Holy Cross will field the beefiest team on the schedule Saturday and the Crimson got in the mood to face this array of brawn yesterday by grinding through the longest scrimmage of the week...
...morality plays, serials unvaryingly make everything black & white. Hero & heroine are Good; villain and assistant villain (brain & brawn) are Evil. Love finds its strongest expression in a frank, manly smile. Sex never, never rears its snuggly head. (One serial director recalls that when Carole Landis first reared her chest in serials, it was sternly taped flat by the make-up department...
Brains & Short Bursts. Toronto's strength, over & above brawling brawn, lies in its fast, brainy centers (the quarterbacks of hockey). One is Syl Apps, 34, who once thought of becoming a clergyman. This season, afraid that Apps was slowing down, the Leafs traded five good men to the Chicago Black Hawks for pint-sized (150 Ibs.) Max Bentley, one of the most skilled stick-handlers in the game. But Apps, the playmaker, could still show dazzling speed in short bursts; and the Leafs had Bentley, too, and a young bulldog-type center called Teeder Kennedy...
Army's bone-crushers loom as a threat to the Varsity's physical well-being if nothing more, while Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale are all powerful opponents, relying on brains as well as brawn. Return engagements with B.U. and B.C. will provide little let-up between these Ivy League games...