Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernard Baruch, economic adviser to Presidents in two wars, faced peace again in an optimistic mood, declared: "We can have a prosperity that will startle the world if we use half the brains and brawn the good Lord gave us; even 47½% will make for peace and high living standards...
General Marshall came out flatly against a huge professional army. Such an army, said he, might be efficient, as it had been in Germany and Japan. But, he added: "Under such a system only the brawn of a people is developed for war [and not] the latent military leadership and genius of the people as a whole. It therefore has no place among the institutions of a modern democratic state based upon the conception of government by the people...
...average of 10,000 bar bells a year, despite restrictive priorities. For past, present and future champions its three foundries provide jobs which do not affect their amateur standing. Clean-jerker Ter-lazzo, for example, is office secretary, Presser Terpak is general manager, and Snatcher Ishikawa earns brawn with his bread by lifting boxes in the shipping department. "Mr. America" is a machinist...
...super-talent scout (Rosalind Russell) is used to earning commissions as handsome as she is. But when the film begins she is having trouble locating a bunch of brawn adequate to .portraying The Whirlwind, hero of a best-selling romance which is rocketing screenward. In time's nick, she discovers that the book's author, a shy professor (Willard Parker), has just the physical architecture for the role. So she blandishes him into taking it, makes casual use of his infatuation with her to warm him up for the picture's love scenes...
Janitor's office in all Houses are desperately understaffed, making the moving problem one of local college ingenuity rather than general grammer school brawn. it require two to four men to move a good-sized, well-stocked sophomore within an hour, and when five or six men want to move in one day, it over-works today's janitor staff...