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...Pressure groups are on the march.. . . The gold dust thrown in all our eyes, by political abracadabra, only confuses, with gain to no one except temporary power to the economic magicians. We must mix brains with our brawn if we would keep our world leadership. We must steady ourselves in these emotional sweeps and keep our heads or the ship of democracy will wallow in this sea of confusion, spring a leak and disintegrate. . . . The whole world is watching us, amazed at the exhibition of a giant who cannot pull himself together even to take care...
...clear case of brains over brawn in Lowell this year. While the Bellboy grid giants are playing doormat to the intramural loop, the Lowell chess team captured the inter-House championship. The other Houses could not come close to checking the Bellboy wizards of Caissa; until Monday night Kirkland A had matched the champions point for point, but they failed to win a single game when the chips were down...
Bernard Baruch, economic adviser to Presidents in two wars, faced peace again in an optimistic mood, declared: "We can have a prosperity that will startle the world if we use half the brains and brawn the good Lord gave us; even 47½% will make for peace and high living standards...
General Marshall came out flatly against a huge professional army. Such an army, said he, might be efficient, as it had been in Germany and Japan. But, he added: "Under such a system only the brawn of a people is developed for war [and not] the latent military leadership and genius of the people as a whole. It therefore has no place among the institutions of a modern democratic state based upon the conception of government by the people...
...average of 10,000 bar bells a year, despite restrictive priorities. For past, present and future champions its three foundries provide jobs which do not affect their amateur standing. Clean-jerker Ter-lazzo, for example, is office secretary, Presser Terpak is general manager, and Snatcher Ishikawa earns brawn with his bread by lifting boxes in the shipping department. "Mr. America" is a machinist...