Word: handicap
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...good that the night was clear; mud could be a great handicap. The drivers were alert; the coolies worked hard, chanting as they loaded the trucks; the mechanics checked over the engines as if they were airplanes. There was a wonderful electric atmosphere. Even the Chinese drivers refrained from drinking. Some of the Burmese who wandered idly among the piles of stock and droves of trucks were Japanese spies, but no one seemed to care. The Burma Road was opening again...
...this point the customary bow of deference to Harvard indifference is due and executed. Lack of a cheering section would constitute a serious handicap to the best of cheer leaders. To compare the feeble croak of a Harvard undergraduate to the engulfing roar of an Army cadet is to set a double forte trumpet against a pianissimo harp. Still, even the harps of Harvard can make a creditable racket if aroused. The Michigan game proved that, and one is led to the conclusion that the Crimson cheer leaders could get more from the instruments with which they have to work...
Following the same procedure as they did in the Tufts game last week the Crimson soccer eleven started very slowly but came back in the third quarter with a one goal handicap to edge out Williams 4 to 3 Saturday...
Despite a sizable handicap of two minutes and 40 seconds, Gilbert H. Stewart '42 ran to victory in the University Handicap Cross Country meet yesterday afternoon for the second year in succession, with a time of 20 minutes and 53.8 seconds...
...Freshman time, and Robert Burns, a junior, finished second and third respectively out of a field of 29 men. Captain Langdon Burwell who ran the fastest actual time for the three and seven tenths of a mile course was clocked under twenty minutes but could not overcome a heavy handicap and failed to finish among the first three...