Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find little cause for complaint in the four year period which is destined to shape their undergraduate career. True, they enter College at a time when family and University budgets are severely restricted to essentials, a condition which necessitates a definite curtailment of extra, nonetheless agreeable conveniences. But this handicap, if such indeed it can honestly be termed, is far offset by two notable advantages. Today, as Freshmen, they will find men's minds quickened to thought and imagination by the problems of the present crisis; to the eager student such an atmosphere is well worth the small...
While the Coolidge article was political gospel for all G. O. Partisans, it prompted such an irreverent individual as Funny man Will Rogers to remark: "Calvin Coolidge has had everybody on the anxious seat for months as to who he would sup port in the November handicap. Campaign managers and politicians have been dogging his rubber-booted steps. But it took, not a politician, but a commercial-minded gentleman (proprietor of America's biggest nickelodeon), Mr. George Horace Lorimer, not with words or editorial persuasion but with his signature on a small piece of paper, payable...
...each manned by a corps of trap loaders, pullers, referees, scorers, with expert accountants in the manager's office to keep track of scores. After a week of minor events, Vandalia's shooters gathered last week for the biggest prizes in the two oldest events, the Preliminary Grand American Handicap and, a day later, the Grand American Handicap proper...
Only a half-dozen first-rate marksmen?men who consistently break more than 95 out of 100 targets?have won the Grand American. No one has ever won it more than once. In the huge field?722 last week?high-class shooters have an almost insuperable handicap in firing from as far away as 25 yd., 9 yd. farther than those with the lowest ratings. Last week, Rev. Garrison Roebuck, United Brethren minister of Defiance, Ohio who won last year, finished with a wretched 71. A heavy rain made the visibility so poor that from time to time all firing...
...last week he felt fairly confident about it. An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they had a chance to tie it, he won his second, and the Grand American purse...