Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia which won a 41-mile handicap race at Cowes last week, Their Majesties lunched H. R. H. Frederick, youngest son of one-time German Crown Prince Wilhelm...
...season went, appropriately, to Fitter Pat, whose owner, William Woodward, is chairman of The Jockey Club. At the track three days later Governor and Mrs. Lehman watched Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Rocky Run set a new two-mile track record to win the Beverwyck Steeplechase Handicap. First long-shot winner at Saratoga was a horse named Wee Tune at 50-to-1, on which bookmakers dropped some $50,000. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who had 30 horses in his Saratoga string, got up at 4 a.m., went out to the track with "Bet Mosie," his personal betting commissioner...
Normally the Postmaster General of an administration opposed to the spoils system would be under a severe handicap in the matter of patronage. But Mr. Farley suffers no such disadvantage, thanks to the fertility of the New Deal in producing new agencies and new jobs. In addition to about 75,000 regular Government jobs which were Mr. Farley's to give away, he got about 75,000 more as a result of the AAA, PWA, NRA, HOLC, etc. A little wire-pulling from the Post Office Department was all that was necessary to convince Congress that it would...
Thirty-five of the afternoon's 37 turf events were trotting races, and trotting horses are of little use as cavalry mounts or for plowing. With a guilty conscience Moscow was having fun. The big event was the Grand All-Union Trotting Handicap and everyone seemed to have fistfuls of greasy rubles to bet on Evening. "He is sure to win," argued Bolshevik tipsters. "His grandsire is one of the best American stallions we have imported...
...appreciate TIME'S terse, pictorial style- certainly for those who didn't see the point in the "Suppose Curtis B. Ball . . ." article, there is a little newspaper using only a 900-word vocabulary. Since it is intended for foreigners learning English, deaf elementary-school children (whose handicap retards their linguistic development), Indian children, adult illiterates, etc. may we suggest that those who cannot get the points in TIME subscribe to The American World for the next school year. . . . One of the first words learned is the word "if," which if TIME-readers had understood, would have made...