Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South whites did not let Negroes handicap them in this curious competition. Both races committed practically the same number of murders. In ten Southern cities there were last year 731 killings, an average rate of 38.6 murders per 100,000. In the country's six largest communities the number was twice as great (1,513), the rate one-fourth as high...
...morning until after sundown at varying distances for assorted purses and Golden Prince, could he talk, might have told reporters he was the happiest horse in the world. Golden Prince earned $110,000, the largest annual turf stake in the world, by winning the tenth running of the Coffroth Handicap at Tiajuana (Aunt Jane). Mexico. Golden Prince is a sleepy-looking Kentucky chestnut, a five-year-old gelding from the stables of the Sunshot Stock Farm owned by one Abe Bartelstein. He has won seven out of eight starts this season. Last week, with Jockey Jack Parmelee...
...lower beat than its four rivals and although it came up fast at the finish the prow of the shell did not get beyond the waist of the combination crew boat. The latter with H. W. Sturges '30 in the stroke position was materially aided by a one length handicap...
...chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks...
...This does not mean that the good schoolboy athlete is necessarily a poor college student, but it does show that the good schoolboy athlete is under a handicap in college, probably because he has lost the proper perspective between studies and athletics. Experience has shown that the average star athlete in school, is an indifferent or, at best, average school student. When he enters college he become a below-the-average or probation student and consequently is not of much use to his team...