Word: handicaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light man is under the same handicap in football as in rowing and it would seem that the 150-pound plan is particularly adaptable to the gridiron. It has as a matter of fact, been considered by various college athletic associations...
...especially Freshmen for whom a series of informal meets are scheduled in which they will have the opportunity to compete with men of their own ability. Later in the season, interdormitory contests will also provide opportunity for further competition. In addition to these events for Freshmen, the usual Fall Handicap meet for University men will be held in the last of October, in which both graduates and undergraduates will be allowed to compete...
...victory or defeat. Harvard's opponents are mostly of the big-college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap so grievous that it may be termed almost fatal...
...Dewey he has for poison ivy and measles. ... If there is any following, Dewey will do it, not she. ... A very charming sensible woman . . . she isn't brilliant but she is clearheaded, understanding, independent, much disposed to do her own political thinking. Being a wealthy widow is no handicap to her. . . . But the days when Dewey had two votes are over...
...many of the cities it was reported that the lack of co-operation from the parents of minors found in the halls was the greatest handicap confronting the supervisors . . . due sometimes to ignorance of what their children were doing, sometimes to indifference, and sometimes to the old belief that young people must sow their wild oats...