Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 4 o'clock the annual University Handicap Track Meet will get under way at Soldiers Field with the trials in the hurdles and dash events, while tomorrow at the same time the finals and 11 other events as well will be contested. The Handicap meet affords an opportunity for former college athletes in the graduate schools, for Freshmen, and for men on probation or otherwise prevented from intercollegiate competition to stack up against Coach Farrell's present crop of stars, while men of non-squad calibre are aided by liberal handicaps to compete with more experienced athletes...
...part, I have many times had to realize how much of a handicap afternoon "labs" can be if one wants to enter any athletics or use the afternoon for any particular purpose. Furthermore, a person, under the present system, can be in the middle of a difficult chemistry experiment that has required much careful preparation, only to be told at five o'clock that he must leave and within about a five minute margin...
...therapeutics. He lectures to his patients, explains to them the various ways that tuberculosis affects various people and their organs, why certain treatments are used, the ways of preventing the spread of infection. By answering all questions and avoiding obscurantism he has kept his patients from worry, that great handicap against treatment. His book, in which he organized his lectures, has been in wide demand. Last autumn he revised it and recently C. V. Mosby of St. Louis published the second edition (price...
...convention is usually an occasion upon which tycoons who are not orators deliver speeches prepared for them by secretaries who are not writers. This handicap, coupled with the further hazard that convention speeches are generally highly conventional, tends to throw the value of a convention upon the personal contacts established rather than upon the official business transacted. Thus it is somewhat questionable whether the Sixteenth National Foreign Trade Convention at Baltimore last week made any epochal advances in the solution of problems of foreign trade. Still many an Exporter met many an Importer; many sound, if not startling, pronouncements were...
...income account in the way prescribed by the government," said the report, "the result of the year's operations is a net loss before depreciation of $583,000, and, in addition, there is a charge of $1,139,412 for depreciation. Local taxes . . . were a great handicap in such difficult times...