Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro Press Association. I waited two hours for the meeting to begin. Then I said: 'If St. Peter uses a white man's time-table the Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side...
...President of the American Medical Association, a potent position during a presidential campaign year. He might have had a Cabinet appointment himself. But for him, the continued chieftainship of a university is more notable than the term occupancy of a U. S. Department. So Dr. Wilbur was without handicap when two years ago he led the U. S. group to the Institute of Pacific Relations, the first successful attempt to mobilize pan-Pacific thought in international affairs. In fine, Dr. Wilbur has definitely turned from medicine; has deliberately made Aesculapius his handman...
State universities labor under a greater handicap than endowed institutions in the present movement toward further restriction of enrolment because of the limitations imposed upon them by their governmental connections. Almost without exception they are required by charter to admit all graduates from accredited high and preparatory schools. They are dependent for reform upon legislative action...
...year-old ordinance of the City of Baltimore, which once owned the Western Maryland, provides that this road be sold to no railroad that has main terminals in Baltimore or Philadelphia. The intent has been to provide several railroad channels for traffic to the Port of Baltimore. This may handicap the present sale...
...handicap sprint event, at 40 yards, Francis Hussey of Boston College running from scratch, won his major victory of the year. The former Stuyvesant High School and Olympic sensation had little difficulty to bursting past his rivals. Lundell, veteran Crimson sprinter, came in third immediately behind Morrill of Boston University...