Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimenting against Wesleyan Thursday. Today, Larry Ekpebu will go back to his old position, wing, where he terrorized Ivy defenses last fall. John Hedreen will move to center forward, and Tadgh Sweeney will open at inside, a position which Munro feels will allow him to use his size and brawn to greater advantage...
...part of reporters and press photographers which seems to be increasing in absurdity in the last few years. I firmly believe in a free press, but I also believe that it is one duty of a free press to discipline itself. The use of "any trick of brain or brawn," to the point of rowdiness, is not to the credit of the press. T. S. CARSWELL Chestertown...
...hard-working newsmen, the first commandment of the profession is: get the story. Following this time-honored tradition under the hard eye of a demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he can devise. When more than 300 reporters and photographers are thrown together to cover one of the biggest stories any of them ever covered, all the tricks piled one on another can produce a near riot. Last week, as the U.S. press covered Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's tour...
...direct competition with male schools, the men from Winthrop "will probably row with them, rather than against them." Each shell will consist of four Puritans and four Sophians. If the two schools should race against each other, however, "there is no doubt who would lose. It's brain over brawn in this sport," according to referee Blake Dennison...
Only one new quiz show was announced, Brains and Brawn, in which intellectual quiz athletes team up with actual musclemen. (After the brains match memories in familiar fashion, the brawnier contestants match skills in athletic derring-do.) An announcer's throbbing voice pledged continued loyalty to Twenty-One. But the irrepressible comics had a field day kidding the quizzes. "When the subject of my new show came up," cracked Bob Hope, "all General Sarnoff said was, 'Never mind if it's funny. Is it honest...