Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to bulge. He became an adept gymnast, an expert Greco-Roman wrestler. He entered the lightweight national tournament, won it; challenged Chicago's welterweight champion, flattened him in four minutes; challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist, teacher of higher physical culture." He wrote a novel, The Athlete's Conquest, was shocked to learn that it was "poorly expressed, crude and ungrammatical." (He afterwards published it, revised, in his Physical Culture Magazine...