Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides perfectly conditioned beef and brawn, Leahy can count on some help from the far sidelines-from nuns in convents, whose Saturday radio-side prayers go something like this: "God's will be done . . . but if it doesn't make any difference, let Notre Dame win." Says Frank Leahy, a realist, "The prayers work better when the players...
...after taking one look at the specimen called "Mr. America" [TIME, June 17], I wonder why they can't find something like this as a challenger for Joe Louis. If the muscle and brawn is as good as it looks and this is not just a puffball exposure, after the poor fight Conn put up ... this man looks as if he could revive the old glamor of boxing interest in a very short time...
...amazed at Billy Rose for the mistake he made. We cannot understand why he did not say "handsome men do not go to college." Not only Radcliffe, 800 strong, but all eastern women's colleges, would support him in that statement. We've come to the conclusion that brawn, beauty and brains is a difficult combination; in fact, the phenomenon is confined to Olympian regions and is hardly to be met with in the earthly walks of Harvard Yard. Radcliffe News, April...
...Pressure groups are on the march.. . . The gold dust thrown in all our eyes, by political abracadabra, only confuses, with gain to no one except temporary power to the economic magicians. We must mix brains with our brawn if we would keep our world leadership. We must steady ourselves in these emotional sweeps and keep our heads or the ship of democracy will wallow in this sea of confusion, spring a leak and disintegrate. . . . The whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care...
...clear case of brains over brawn in Lowell this year. While the Bellboy grid giants are playing doormat to the intramural loop, the Lowell chess team captured the inter-House championship. The other Houses could not come close to checking the Bellboy wizards of Caissa; until Monday night Kirkland A had matched the champions point for point, but they failed to win a single game when the chips were down...