Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naval Science. At any rate, it should be perfectly evident that his views regarding Widener are not generally shared by the undergraduate body. There is a very strong and a very justifiable body of sentiment which differs from Mr. Tillinghast, which feels that the closing of Widener is a handicap, especially in a busy period, to a proper course of preparation, and that such a handicap is not justified by the economies involved...
Critics have little faith in women pianists but in the twelve years she has been playing in the U. S. Myra Hess has lived down the handicap. With her there is no pose, no affectation, no sentimentality. She comes on the stage usually in a severe black velvet dress, sits down calmly and plays Bach so that the audience shouts for more. She plays Beethoven with the stride and strength of a man. Her Brahms and Schumann are expertly tender. Evidence of Hess's powers are the houses she draws. During Depression when most audiences have dwindled hers have...
...Oxenham were to make up a foursome for an afternoon of golf, the osteopath would probably win. What would make such a victory remarkable is the fact that Osteopath Oxenham is totally blind. Last week at the West Hove Club near Brighton, England he was awarded a handicap of 20, which approximates the handicaps allotted to Messrs. Chrysler, Goldberg, Aylesworth, many & many another duffer who has good eyes to keep on the ball...
...Hull had come to Montevideo under the same handicap which bound him at the London Monetary & Economic Conference (TIME, June 19). On Montevideo's agenda, as on London's, were the major problems of currency and tariffs. Because President Roosevelt remains cheerfully opposed to negotiating these problems, Mr. Hull's mission at Montevideo was to carry out what Mr. Roosevelt has called his "good neighbor policy." This Secretary Hull did for several days before the Conference opened by going about Montevideo in an ordinary business suit and calling on the always cutaway-clad Latin-American delegates without...
Died. Aida E. M. Birrel Iglehart. 52, Long Island horsewoman, polo sponsor, art patron, Chile-born wife of Importer D. Stewart Iglehart (president of W. R. Grace & Co. and Grace Steamship Co.), mother of Poloists Stewart Iglehart (8-goal handicap) and Philip Iglehart; of pneumonia; in Westbury...