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Word: handicap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colds-in-the-Head are a frightful handicap to columns and courses. But really one just has to have one. It's being done. Colds and moral turpitude are quite the thing, positively the dernier cri. So this column must suffer--from a Cold-in-the-Head. That and the asperin which goes with it. Funny thing, asperin. Asperin plus Irene Bordoni makes "Mmmmm--Do I Love you?" rob the brain of any efficiency what so ever. But probably some one will think this is polyphonic prose or a time table and get something out of it, so after...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

Colds in the head are a frightful handicap to columns and courses. So this column must suffer. But "airy, fairy Lillian"? She rather helped, what? Gentlemen, shall we join the ladies? I mean, after all, what...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

Yale still showed lack of practice, a handicap the Blue has been laboring under all winter due to lack of an artificial risk and the unreliability of natural ice in the vicinity of New Haven. Only at times did their combination play become dangerous, and their wild shooting rendered futile several dangerous advances into Crimson territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI SEXTET BOWS IN LAST CONTEST TO CUMINGS' MEN | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...order to win. Another champion will be found in Osborne, World's high jump record-holder, with whom Jones will have to contend, Christiansen, the Scandinavian flash will hop the barriers against Ballantyne and Clark of the University. Hall and Boyce have been listed in the 1000-yard handicap race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKSTERS SET FOR TWO BIG MEETS | 2/2/1926 | See Source »

...yard handicap low hurdles, won by Ballantyne, Harvard; second, Clark, Harvard; third. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILLER LEADS FAST SPRINTERS TO TAPE | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

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