Word: handicaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Libbey of Dartmouth, with a 9 inch handicap, won the pole-vault at 12 feet two inches...
...action of the Harvard Corporation in officially protesting against the measure is well justified and distinctly appropriate. As the resolution states, the duty would "seriously handicap American libraries, teachers, and men of science, and would accomplish no useful purpose commensurate with the harm done to American scholarship". If other authoritative bodies like the Corporation will take similar action, Congress should be made to see the error of its contemplated step before the sentence is sealed...
...agony which rocked the world half a century ago now shakes Kentucky to its foundations; fifty years hence, they will doubtless be discussing the "freedom of the knees" as vehemently as we do today. But in their rush up the intellectual field, the Colonels are starting with an enormous handicap of time; and if they really intend to "buck" the well-tried scientific line, they are likely to find themselves thrown for a decided joss...
...Gordon and by the steady defense work of the Crimson backs. With the score at 27-17 substitutes for both teams went in, Captain Gowdy of the Aggies being the only may who played through the contest. The visitors, however, were able to regain only one point of their handicap before the regulars were sent back in. The game closed with the Crimson on the offense, McLeish scoring once from the foul line and Gordon dropping in two in the closing minutes of play...
...made the same. Therefore the cost of exporting through Boston is higher, and the inevitable result is a diverting of export commerce from Boston to the other ports. With the decline of exports must come a similar decline in imports. Hence comes a slackening in railroad traffic and a handicap on the New England lines. There is no argument in favor of the differential except the selfish desires of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Evidently the Interstate Commerce Commission is in need of an awakening...