Word: handicap
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...Negro Press Association. I waited two hours for the meeting to begin. Then I said: 'If St. Peter uses a white man's time-table the Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side...
State universities labor under a greater handicap than endowed institutions in the present movement toward further restriction of enrolment because of the limitations imposed upon them by their governmental connections. Almost without exception they are required by charter to admit all graduates from accredited high and preparatory schools. They are dependent for reform upon legislative action...
...year-old ordinance of the City of Baltimore, which once owned the Western Maryland, provides that this road be sold to no railroad that has main terminals in Baltimore or Philadelphia. The intent has been to provide several railroad channels for traffic to the Port of Baltimore. This may handicap the present sale...
Faced with a considerable lead to overcome, the Boston University relay team entered the last quarter of its race against the Crimson, with the chances of victory very slim indeed. Running anchor against Captain Haggerty, Mastaglio of the Terriers, however, performed the seemingly impossible; overcame his handicap, and leaping to the fore broke the tape a foot in front of the Harvard leader. The time was 3 minutes, 9 and four-fifths seconds...
...handicap sprint event, at 40 yards, Francis Hussey of Boston College running from scratch, won his major victory of the year. The former Stuyvesant High School and Olympic sensation had little difficulty to bursting past his rivals. Lundell, veteran Crimson sprinter, came in third immediately behind Morrill of Boston University...