Word: handicaped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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McGlone twisted his knee very severely while sliding in practice recently, thus aggravating an old football injury. His loss would be a severe handicap to Harvard athletics, for he earned his numerals in three sports last year, and has already won his "H" in football this year...
...recent attack on publishers and booksellers by a writer in the New York Herald, on the ground that they handicap true artistic development by insisting on books of about seventy-five thousand words, is partly justified, partly undeserved. For some reason, this particular size must be advantageous to the publisher-either for technical reasons or because the public prefers it and buys it most readily. In the latter case, the publisher is not altogether accountable...
...list for quantity of contests. The University baseball, track, and tennis teams, as well as the Freshman baseball and track teams, will play Princeton; the baseball games will be the only home contests of the three sports. Besides these there will be an interclass and intersquad open handicap track meet, a second team tennis match with Brown, and a lacrosse game with Colgate. The crews, however, will furnish most of the day's competition. Races will be staged at New Haven between the winning class crews of both colleges and the Freshman 150-pound crews. At Princeton the University...
...able to present its first string line-up in tonight's contest, although Kent is suffering from an injury received in a practice game in New York last Saturday. Since he is the Crimson's high scorer and most experienced polo player, his loss will be a severe handicap if he is forced to leave the game. Harvard Yale No. 1.--Farrell Hunt No. 2.--Stranahan Baldwin Back.--Kent Hewitt
Furthermore, while railroad operating costs are now 100% and over, more than they were at the outbreak of the War, railroad income has during the same period increased only 50%. The railroads have survived this handicap only by increased efficiency in putting more freight in each car and more cars on each train...