Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three essential qualities that a championship golfer must possess are incentive, enthusiasm, and coolness under pressure. The absence of one of these qualities in the make-up of a golfer is an inestimable handicap. Such hardened campaigners as Walter Hagen, George Von Elm, and Johnny Farrell appear to have lost their incentive or driving power; that certain spark of enthusiasm has been lacking in their play recently, and consequently, they have failed to finish among the leaders. On the other hand, many young players such as Munger, Goodman, Dunlap, Fischer, Somerville, and many others have been winning recent tournaments. These...
...with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself as the Marx of the American working class, a role for which he was unfitted by temperament and by real inclination. Mr. H. L. Mencken had already remarked a handicap almost as important, the unprecedented style...
...knowledge of the grammar and literature of Latin. There are admittedly fields of study in the liberal arts where Latin is of no immediate advantage. But there are many departments, such as English and the Romance Languages, in which its importance cannot be ignored, and surely it is a handicap in none of them. More significant, however, is the value of Latin as a means to mental training in the secondary schools. No readier index exists to the quality of a secondary school preparing for a liberal arts college than the excellence of its instruction in Latin and Greek...
...calling himself "Brogan the Scribe," and by patronizing an unknown publisher, the author of the "Outline of Heaven" has probably furnished his work with an insuperable handicap. That was all very unnecessary, and it makes one doubt the good sense of the writer, for the book is in other regards quite a commonplace and respectable offering. It is an imaginative, but never too imaginative, account of heaven. Like all accounts of heaven it presents the famous rogues and scoundrels who might conceivably be found in heaven, all of whom, as usual, appear a little stiff and formal and uncomfortable under...
...Brown's performance in upsetting Syracuse last Saturday gave the dopesters food for thought that was definitely unfavorable to Eddie Casey's proteges. The loss of Franny Lane and the probability that Captain Johnny Dean will be on the sidelines most of the time will give Harvard an added handicap...