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...bell-an iron rod seven feet long with removable iron discs on each end (so that weights can be increased or decreased)-is the yardstick of a strongman's brawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bar Bellmen | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...that's okay, says Miss Johnson, as brain and brawn are out, in the next slaughterfest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...young Earl Durand, son of a respected rancher. From boyhood up, Earl talked about wanting to be a "true woodsman," a "Daniel Boone." He went to school through the eighth grade. Then, reaching a height of 6 ft. 2 in. and a bulk of 250 lb., all bone and brawn, he spent most of his time hunting and camping out in the Beartooth Mountains east of Yellowstone National Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: True Woodsman | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...front now reigns that extraordinary specimen of balanced brain, brawn, and emotion known as the "normal youth"; there doctors solicitously question him in efforts to learn why he is. But in the rear of the Dunster Court, the Harvard Dramatic Society will pursue its unpublicized course, considerably out of the main current of undergraduate activities, but nevertheless serving a valuable purpose in the limited circle for which it is organized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACTORS' BRIEF | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...student generation to which thumbs have more to do than pull out plums, six-foot, 20-year-old Stanley Fiese of Beloit (Wis.) was last week putting his 185 lb. of brain and brawn behind a helpful idea-Registered Collegiate Thumbers. A student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport (Iowa), he got the idea last May, thumbed his way around during the summer to enlist boys in several colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Thumbs Up | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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