Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When an internal combustion motor operates it generates heat. In practically all automobile motors the heat is diffused by circulating water. Water takes up room and has weight. Weight and bulk have little importance in ground motoring but in flying they form a great handicap. Air-cooled motors are lighter and preferable...
...great handicap of the radial engine is that its spreading cylinders create wind resistance and so slow an airplane's speed...
Even the college editors, well-informed as they are supposed to be, suffer from the same handicap of having only faulty images on which to base what they will say. The fault is, of course, not peculiar to college students; what is called public opinion is built on a foundation as shaky. Neither should the blame lie wholly on the undergraduates; in most universities there are conditions which keep from the student intimate knowledge of events. But where opinion can be based only on impressions it will never have more than a transitory value...
...last minute, Cleveland, remembering their defeat by Yale, Friday night, decided not to spot the visitors four points handicap, but to start from scratch. The western riders scored two goals in the first chukker, thus putting themselves in the lead, but five goals for Harvard in the next period, gave the visitors a lead that was never overcome. G. O. Clark '31 starred for the Crimson malletmen, by scoring 11 goals, while Newcomet, of the Cleveland team, made 7. HARVARD CLEVELAND G. O. Clark, No. 1 No. 1, Greenfield Gerry, No. 2 No. 2, Newcomet F. A. Clark...
Score Harvard Seconds 18 1-2, 51st Brigade 10 1-2. Goals--Walker 10, Cotton 4, Nicholas 3, Glynn, Storer 4, Moore 2, Eckfeldt, Harvard pony. Penalties Seconds, 51st Brigade. Handicap 51st Brigade 4 goals. Time--Six 5-minute chukkers. Referee--Brigham. Timer J. B. Howard...