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Word: brawne (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass of Indian brawn and "wild masculine beauty," young Holdfast Uncas Gaines just bent over, tore the 400-lb. cannon from its carriage on the deck. He'd teach old George Ill's British redcoats to mess with a Connecticut Yankee ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ugh for Uncas | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Die Walküre. From Caruso's debut (1903) until eleven years ago, the Met had a thick Italian accent. Then came the great Norwegian, Kirsten Flagstad, to join the great Dane, Lauritz Melchior-two singers with the bellows and brawn to shout down the batteries of trumpets and trombones that Wagner put to work in the pit. Since Flagstad went home to her quisling husband and semi-retirement in 1941, the Met's Wagnerian first team has been Melchior and Traubel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Happy Heroine | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Despite the testimony of scientists that the strength of Kenneth McKellar is insignificant compared to that of the atom bomb, the Senator from Tennessee has lately been experiencing delusions of grandeur, and is prepared to display his vocal brawn in an attempt to twist fissionable uranium into a political crowbar. Contesting the appointment of David E. Lilienthal as Chairman of the new Atomic Energy Commission, McKellar is reviving an old political battle as significant to the problem of peacetime atomicenergy development as an Ozark blood-fend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bombast | 11/8/1946 | See Source »

Whose only asset is but brawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slim-Bodied Undergraduate Look to Atlas As Ectomorphic Revolution Gains Momentum | 11/5/1946 | See Source »

...Brawn with a liberal dash of experience is the recipe that's going to start Kirkland House off to a victory in the opener of the House gridiron circuit with a lighter Dunster House eleven this afternoon. At least that's the way Captain George Blanchard of the Deacon aggregation, who bolsters up the line at guard, views the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Holds Edge In House Grid Opener | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

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