Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March 1951, Purcell and Ewen announced that these hydrogen clouds radiate at a wavelength of 21 centimenters, and Ewen got his Ph.D. in Physics. The latter still insists, "Purcell provided the brains, I just the brawn...
wine; Before him stands a brawn of tusky...
...gave a talk at Pasadena's John Muir College (subject: Christianity and athletics), dropped in two days later to enter a decathlon on the invitation of Muir's track coach. In the field events Richards turned out to be a natural, despite his lack of brawn (5 ft. 10 in., 163 Ibs.). Two months later he won the National A.A.U. decathlon title, with a score of 7,834 points, fourth best on record. In this Olympic event, Parson Richards will rate second only to Stanford's mighty Bob Mathias, the world record holder (8,042 points). Richards...
Football of the 1880's was a rough game with the stress on brawn. A team was built around its line, and Yale and Harvard vied for the nation's giants. In 1893, Harvard came out with the greatest sensation since the game had been invented -- the flying wedge. It was promptly copied by every team in the country...
...Baltimore. In 1894, at the age of twelve, he worked his way to New York from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work...