Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order that the score may not be as lopsided as it always is, the command at the CRIMSON practices for the past few days has been that the boys need not go into their usual spring training, but even with this handicap, those in the know have put their money on the red CRIMSON nose...
...this time, appeals to us for his quiet sentimentality. The relations between this sensitive boy and his mother are as touching as they are true to life. His older brother Robert, aged thirteen, has had a serious accident which resulted in the amputation of his leg. Because of this handicap, the boy seems in Bunny's eyes to have usurped all the love and devotion of the parents and to have become a tyrant in the family...
...failed to even qualify in the broad jump. Johnson's poor performance has been laid by some to a mental condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year ago. It is to be doubted though that this supposed handicap should cause him to foul twice in the broad jump and strain so as he never has before at the finish of the hundred. More likely is it that Ben had an off day familiar to most track...
...Henry Stanley used for navigating rivers in Africa, took to building racing shells. His son Frederick Pocock built shells for Eton, Oxford, Cambridge. Another son, William, became the world's sculling champion, crew coach at Westminster School. Frederick Pocock's son 'George won the United Kingdom Handicap at 17, in a 26-lb. pine shell he had built himself. His daughter Lucy was women's sculling champion of England in 1910-11. In 1911, George Pocock and his brother Richard emigrated to the U. S., set themselves up in the shell-game at Vancouver...
...Jerome H. Louchheim's colt Pompoon, favorite for next month's Kentucky Derby, smartly ridden by Jockey Harry Richards: the Paumonok Handicap, feature race of the first day of the New York racing season; by a neck, from Marshall Field's Tintagel; at Jamaica...