Word: prowess
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Indiana seems to be disturbed and a little confused about the courage and prowess of American athletes. Traditionally the very core of Americanism, it has shown that its faith might be slightly insincere. Fancying itself a bulwark against communist infiltration, the Indiana Athletic Commission has proclaimed that professional boxers and wrestlers must take a non-Communist oath before stepping into Indiana rings. Already new license applications are being issued...
Never a star athlete, Case showed his prowess in offbeat competitions. He won a prune-eating contest at a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. And on his library mantel is a cup given him for winning a heel-and-toe walking race at a fair near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...
Earnest A. Hooton, the University's late professor of Physical Anthropology, once displayed his academic prowess by swinging into a lecture on a rope. William W. Howells, who filled the late master's professorship here in July, once captivated Wisconsin students with a portrayal of a rampant gibbon. In addition to equalling Hooton's capacity for charades, Howells also appears to have the brilliance of his predecessor...
President Elkins is determined to add academic luster to Maryland's plant and prowess. A star quarterback at the University of Texas and a onetime Rhodes Scholar, he came to Maryland after five years as president of Texas Western College (2,900 students). Well aware of Curly Byrd's "enviable contributions," he has no intention of plowing under the football team, concedes realistically that to attain distinction, a university needs endowment, and good football teams stimulate endowment giving. But in putting the accent on "distinction," he plans "a strong academic program," library expansion, and increased discussion of controversial...
...like asking a mighty gale to become a zephyr. Last week Acting Committee Chairman Karl Mundt complained that Jenkins' "bulky" summary would take two days just to read, let alone digest. Down in Knoxville, a trifle hurt by his caucus-room pal's reflection on his distilling prowess, Jenkins replied testily: "It was reduced from a 7,424-page document down to 447 pages... accompanied by a brief that contained less than 450 pages...