Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only dearth of material is in the pole vault. If no experienced vaulters are found, this weakness may seriously handicap the team...
...curing every stutterer and stammerer in Harvard University, Professor Packard's new course in Holden Chapel is worthy the attention and commendation of the whole University. The fact that one in every hundred Freshmen is afflicted with a speech impediment due to a mental rather than a physical handicap is information that adds even more worth to the activities of the speech department...
...field of eighteen were widely scattered. Inasmuch as the first three runners have all had Varsity experience, their superiority was not surprising; but of the fifteen others, only Lawson was in a contending position as they raced for the finish line. Although Rivinus had previously won the University Handicap, it was generally expected before the race that Walker would be the victor...
...attorney for the defence, and he rests his case boldly on the actual performance of Eliot as poet and as critic. He does not claim, like most advocates, to be in sole possession of the whole truth, so his tone is never arrogant or impatient; the only handicap with which his advocacy and enthusiasm have encumbered him is the tendency to deduce universal 'laws' of poetry from the practice of Eliot, but that obstacle has not seriously impaired or blunted his critical sense...
...Harvard backfield will contain two men who have not, previous to this week, ever appeared as candidates for starting honors. These two are Arthur Oakes and Leo Ecker. Both have done a fine job in scrimmages but both will be working under the handicap of slight Varsity experience...