Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been announced by the Athletic Association that the first three events of the annual Fall Handicap Track Meet which concludes the fall track season, will be run off this afternoon. The pole vault will be contested at 2.30 o'clock, the high jump at 3 o'clock, and the broad jump at 3.30 o'clock...
...Watson, a Republican opportunist, might well, it was conceded, be beaten by young Albert Stump, whose personality reminded older citizens of how Albert J. Beveridge had looked, and behaved at his age. Evans Woollen, an Indianapolis banker of 62, whose intellectual integrity had hitherto been considered a handicap, appeared to have some chance of beating his opponent, Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson. So stated, the situation is simple enough, but there are reasons behind even so simple "a thing as a State's dissatisfaction with the party in power. Responsible for the hope of the Democrats in Indiana...
...stands shivered with Bostonian excitement; fine old gentlemen pushed aside their steamer rugs and rose to their feet, drawling the name of their Alma Mater. Then, amazingly, Holy Cross began to throw the ball around in sly slants, in criss-cross webs, to come from under a 14-0 handicap and win the game...
...clock last night in the Smith Halls Common Room following the upperclass meeting and Captain Platt and Coach Haines made brief speeches. The Crimson Captain stressed the importance of absolute confidence in the coaches. Coach Haines assured the men that experience was unnecessary and even in some cases a handicap...
...ever demonstrative of his power to finish a story off soundly. Mr. Locke is 63 now. With his novels listing more than 30, his plays half a dozen, he is perennial proof that in writing, if not in all the arts, skilled age can give raw whippersnappers a heavy handicap...