Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board based its classification of Randall as a workman upon the nature of his duties. It defined one of them as "to quell disturbances, which requires muscular brawn...
Baron also emphasized the intellectual contributions of his race. He said, "Jewish pioneers of the brain such as Philo, Spinoza, and Einstein, were just as important as the pioneers of brawn who brought material advancement with them wherever they wandered...
With no expense but the gun, the sport appeals to every man from brain to brawn. The intellectual relishes in dousing his roommate, then seeing if he can't talk him out of returning fire or beating him up. It's the scientist who tests his latest theory of hydro-dynamics. (Can I squirt this guy full in the face without hurting...
...alumni did not really mind his emphasis on brains, but they heartily resented his neglect of brawn. He flatly refused to recruit athletes, forced the Denver Pioneer Club to stop talent-scouting for high-school stars, frowned on the weekly pep luncheons of the Quarterback Club. Annual attendance at football games fell from 110,000 to 50,000, and at one game hit a low of 3,500. Last year things got so bad that D.U. lost every one of its seven Mountain States Conference games...
Average weight of the Matthews team is reportedly 220 pounds; combined weight of the 'Cliffe freshmen is 1,000 pounds, according to Joan Rubenstein '56, their coach. "It's just a case of brain against brawn--the score will determine which team is brain and which brawn," she said...