Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matches -- has remained off limits. Although several owners' wives sailed in pre-World War II Cups, only three independent women sailors have participated in Cup trials in recent years. Was it the old saw that women bring bad luck on a boat? Or the fact that the brawn required to turn a 25-ton boat or hoist a 3,400-sq.-ft. sail is rare in females? Or the male clubbiness that excluded women even from the more cerebral positions of navigator and tactician? When the all-female team was announced, says Linda Lindquist, 32, who doubles as a sail...
...Harvard Mediation Service because I "sounded like a pansy" and, for some reason, the Hasty Pudding Club, that legendary bastion of international diversity, never returns my phone calls. So I would have to search on my own, encountering the Other with nothing but my own wits and brawn...
...serene atmosphere of Yale's Timothy Dwight College Saturday morning, Harvard and Yale clashed in a contest of brains rather than brawn--with Harvard emerging victorious by a score of 6 and a half to one and a half...
...think Harvard will win 20 to 7," he said. "The reason is that Yale is weak in brawn this year. Of course, they are always weak in brains...
Steve Schlosser's piece "From Harvard Yard Comes Brains, Brawn and Some Bash," says that the Yankees are very impressed with his power, but that he needs to improve on his fielding...