Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas, captain and outstanding wrestler of the Yardlings last winter, will be fighting for the Crimson at 145. One of the best intra-squad matches of the year is going to be between Thomas and Bruce Richardson, last year's incumbent in the 145-pound position, but Richardson has been laid up this week with a sprained shoulder...
...take over, she found the humorist encamped in his disputed office, determined to stay there until his term expired in 1942. One-legged Mr. Scully had fortified his position with 300-lb. Pete Ladjimi, who once served 30 days for assault & battery upon the person of ex-Champion Wrestler Gus Sonnenberg...
...compete in the major-league circuit -the 100-odd rodeos sponsored by the R. A. A.-a cowboy must be a better-than-average bronc rider, calf roper, steer wrestler or steer rider. More than that, he must be willing to take a chance. A cowboy on the range gets around $40 a month-with "grub." A rodeo cowboy gets no salary at all. He pays his own traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost...
...Hollywood went H. R. H. Sylvia, white-skinned Ranee of Sarawak,* for a public reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either...
...graduates and undergraduates. Like a measure to lower tariffs, it strikes at the roots of vested interests. Particularly disgruntled will be the minor sports athlete who will not easily give up his "H" for a House letter tossed in his direction as a sop. If he is a wrestler or soccer man, he might in the future to be more than propitiated by the elevation of his sport to a major status, provided this action was justified by popularity. Also forced to sacrifice will be the administration, for the abolition of intercollegiate competition in minor sports means the abolition...