Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Getting jobs for the deaf was, besides the 1'Epée statue dedication, the main preoccupation of the convention. The association wants employers to realize that the deaf can work at every occupation except aviation. Their handicap in flying results, not from their inability to hear, but from deficiency of the organ of balance in the inner ear. President Arthur L. Roberts declared that not one insurance company discriminates against the deaf, that employers have found that accidents are rare among deaf workers because they are exceptionally careful. A recent Pennsylvania check-up of motorists revealed deaf drivers...
Last week at its mid-season meeting the U. S. Polo Association's handicap committee issued an important demotion and an important accolade. To Winston F. C. Guest, hard-riding No. 2, next to Thomas Hitchcock Jr. the longest hitter in the game, fell the demotion-reduction of his handicap from nine goals to eight. Always erratic, Guest has been expected to have poor afternoons, but this year in trial matches among contestants for the International team his poor afternoons have come oftener than before, his streaks of brilliant scoring more seldom. Critics who had considered him sure...
...Tiny George H. ("Pete") Bostwick fell the accolade-increase of his handicap from four goals to six. Weighing less than 118 lb., famed as a steeplechaser, Bostwick never took polo seriously until last year. He advanced quickly in a few months from a handicap of one goal to four. His name was not on the list of players receiving invitations to join the International squad but he made so many goals in the 3rd Westbury challenge cup matches that he was drafted belatedly. If he keeps on improving he has a good chance of being International...
Instead, flying enthusiasts found themselves, for the second time in a month, paying homage to a woman. Miss Winifred S. Brown, 26, daughter of a Manchester butcher, won the 750-mi. free-for-all handicap, took her place on a popular pedestal beside Amy Johnson, London-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2). Betting odds against Miss Brown were 49-to-1. In her AvroAvian biplane she started 14th, pulled up to seventh at Bristol, third at Manchester, disposed of Waghorn and Orlebar on her way to Newcastle. Her average speed...
...topic was to be common with the Anglican Bishops at Lambeth* and the Congregationalists at Bournemouth, 107 miles away: church union in India. The handicap of Christian missionaries in India as well as elsewhere is that the heathen cannot understand the competition between Christian denominations. In India there are now a South India United Church (formed by Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed converts), a Wesleyan Methodist Church of South India, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church of India, Burma & Ceylon. The hope of these three Christian churches in India merging soon is good, because their vested interests are neither old nor extensive, because...