Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bowed tendon. No favorite of fortune has been Granville. In the confusion at the start of the Kentucky Derby, William Woodward's bay colt lost his jockey. As though this were not hard luck enough for one horse, Granville lost the Preakness, the Wood Memorial and the Suburban Handicap by almost imperceptible margins, each time after being ahead in the stretch. Ogden Phipp's White Cockade won the Withers. A week later he too was laid up, with bad knees...
However, probable loss of two regulars, Frederick J. Fayette 3L, because of law exams and Alan Simpson 1G, who scored winning tally in the Princeton game on April 25, because of a log injury, may handicap the visiting booters...
...average mind, it does seem at least strange that a building with such crass luxuries should rub elbows with the physical poverty of a distinguished, if small, department like Music. The petition, printed on page one today, does not exaggerate the handicap that the present hole of a library offers to undergraduates and graduate alike. It totally neglects to state that a large part of all the scores and individual compositions are not catalogued in Widener. And so the undergraduates, whose only means of getting acquainted with a wide variety of music is to browse at liberty among the books...
Rhode Island has an exceptionally brilliant bunch of weight men, headed by Irving Folwarthshny and William Rowe, each of whom is potentially capable of ten foot more in the hammer throw than Norm Cahners, top Harvard man who hurled it 162 feet in the recent handicap meet. Folwarthshny also has a world record to his credit in the 35-pound weight throw, won in winter competition...
Married. Michael Grace ("Mike") Phipps 27, grandson of the late Steel-master Henry Phipps and the late Shipping Tycoon Michael P. Grace, international polo player (handicap: eight goals); and Muriel Pillans Lane, British socialite; m Palm Beach...