Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weather conditions generally force the end of outdoor rowing about November 1. It is possible that a brief program of handicap races may conclude the schedule...
...with the great burden placed on the tackles in modern football, two men can scarcely be expected to carry out the entire tackle assignment without frequent relief. In this respect the loss of W. L. Storey '30, last year's Freshman bulwark, through ineligibility will undoubtedly prove a serious handicap. J. E. Barrett '30, Storey's running mate last year, is the leading prospect for relief work. He is the solid, powerful type of tackle who can stand and administer plenty of rough treatment. H. L. Levin '29, T. H. Alcock 28, and F. Z. Davis '30 are the other...
Against his success as a publisher is set his failure as a politician. Unfitted by his retiring personality to capture votes by red-ink methods as he has captured readers, he started under an almost insuperable handicap. He lacked the glad hand. He never was a mixer on a small scale or a large one. Accordingly the only weapon he had left was his brain, backed up by the power of newspapers. These proved insufficient...
...been ratified by only five states of the 36 necessary for the amendment to become a law. The topic of "protective legislation" (restriction of women workers to an eight-hour day) provoked argument between those who felt that women could not reach executive positions with a time-limit handicap on their labor and those who felt that women were likely to be exploited by unscrupulous male employers. The matter was finally left to the individual action of women in the various states...
White placed third in the broad jump with an actual leap of 21 feet and a 4 inch handicap. Guaruaccia turned in a 45 foot 6 inch throw in the 16-pound shot put which with a two foot handicap gave him a second to one of the Medford High athletes who had a four foot advantage...