Word: handicap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decided not to apply for a loan under title II, even though our failure to apply would mean a financial handicap to a certain number of students. We believe that the handicap to the whole student group, through invading our justified trust of them would be a great less. Katherine E. McBride, President...
...Hamlin, a freshman, won the University Handicap cross-country race yesterday, and established a new record for the Charles River course. Hamlin triumphed in both the handicap and scratch divisions, a feat unprecedented in the history of the event...
...handicap standings, freshman Bruce Johnston took second behind Hamlin with the aid of a seven-minute start. Johnston was making his first attempt at cross-country running, and his showing was the best ever for a newcomer to the sport...
Coaches Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell entered the handicap and hauled themselves over the long grind valiantly if not too rapidly. McCurdy finished 25th on a straight time basis; Stowell was farther back in the field...
...Miracle Worker is reminiscent of another play about a famous recovery from handicap, Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Both have the advantage of a ready-made, well-known story, of ready-made audience sympathy. But Gibson's task is a far more demanding one: while Schary could work with the breezy personality of the adult F.D.R., Gibson has as his heroine a six-year-old girl who cannot speak a word. There is, of course, the wonderful Annie, beautifully played by Miss Bancroft, but Helen remains the central figure, an unusual and tremendously difficult character...