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...When viewed upside down, a signature becomes an odd design which may be copied easily without the handicap of personal handwriting traits...
...midst of the greatest human slaughter in history, there is a serious shortage of corpses: the bodies of battle victims are not available to medical schools. This wartime shortage is a serious handicap to medical students who, to learn their business properly, should dissect at least half of a human body. Nowadays, a student may get only a quarter of a corpse to himself, often has to watch another dissect...
...agreement to stay out of the other's backyard. The pact ended in 1934 (although the A.P. still trades its U.S. news for Reuters' foreign coverage). In the ten years since then, Reuters has acquired only 32 U.S. clients, got only as far inland as Chicago. One handicap: the wide suspicion that Reuters is a semi-official propaganda arm of the British Government. To combat this impression, Reuters took ads in U.S. trade papers to prove that it is a cooperative like the A.P., owned by British newspapers...
...were totals to stagger even an air enthusiast's imagination of air power on the make. But they were also a measure of the power Rundstedt had thrown into the offensive, of the reserves he had massed to keep his drive going. The German power, assembled under the handicap of air inferiority, was also a measure of the failure by the Allied command and by Vandenberg's Ninth (the biggest air force on the Continent) to use air tactics to prevent such an offensive...
...wife straightened his bow tie and Frenchy filled the ten-inch-across gold cup with water so that Happy Issue might quench her well-earned thirst. That evening, a dozen celebration guests straw-sipped champagne from the cup-and glowed with hopes for Happy Frenchy in the Santa Anita Handicap, scheduled to be run again March 3 for the first time since Pearl Harbor. A week later, War Mobilization Director Jimmy Byrnes ruled racing...