Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose: "To know consistent differences between the brilliant man and the dullard, the scholar and the professional wrestler. . . . To know whether the brain can show what has to be born, and how much the brain we are born with can be expected to develop by use as well as suffer from misuse and disease. We must learn what we may dare to do in brain surgery. We must know more about changes under drugs and complexities of function; more about the nutritional support the brain depends upon to do its best...
...meet, will meet a worthy opponent in James McCaughan of the Engineers in the light-heavyweight division. Gridley Barrows '34, three letter man, will represent the Crimson in the heavyweight class, while Richard W. Emory '35 will tackle Frank Poole, husky 165-pound Tech athlete. Harold Frankel '34, diminutive wrestler who was a sensation in the bantamweight division last year, will meet Ovedis Maderosian of Tech in the 126-pound class...
...Wrestler...
...Indianapolis, Ind., "Chief Chewchki," Indian heavyweight wrestler, was disqualified during a match when the referee stripped off Chief Chewchki's tights, found that he had tucked two sheets of sandpaper studded with carpet tacks inside...
...named Frank ("Man Mountain") Dean whom Promoter Curley, always on the lookout for monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy brown beard, four inches long. He practices against his wife, whom experts consider a more accomplished wrestler than her husband. Last week, matched with Joe Savoldi, onetime Notre...