Word: handicap
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...from other classes by its long tradition of cultural activity. This is not true in the United States to nearly so large a degree. Many American college graduates are the first in their line to acquire that distinction, and it is impossible that they should fail to feel the handicap of a lack of higher culture in their early home life...
...Copley Theatre came to life in the later stages of the game, and was able to end up with a safe, but slender, margin of success. The authors, Leslie Bickson and W. Lee Dickson, failed to show any- thing like championship form until they had run up a big handicap against themselves...
...especial plea has been made by Coaches Edward Stevens and H. H. Haines to have inexperienced 1928 men report for crew this Fall. "In no other sport", Coach Stevens has said, "does the man without experience have the opportunity he has in crew. Inexperience is not a handicap...
...plan great works to carry them through to completion is, as he says, a convinceing argument. With a world-wide demand for leadership, it plainly behooves the world to do what it can to train its future leaders in a fashion to lessen, so far as may be, the handicap of the lagging body upon the mind that would go far on the road of progress. --Manchester Union...
...were put through the usual workout yesterday with 30 candidates for the University team and 27 for the Freshman team. Coach Farrell believes it is too early in the season to make any predictions. Men desiring to enter the Freshman cross-country man ager competition may still apply without handicap...