Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Night Raid, English horse, and out of Entreaty, New Zealand mare) has won 32 out of 42 races and $267,675 prize money in Australia. He was taken to Heather Stock Farm near San Francisco for conditioning before being sent to Agua Caliente to race in the $50,000 handicap there in March...
...newspaper on his graduation day than is the purely academically trained man, it is quite possible that a greater fund of knowledge and more thorough habits of thought may make the latter superior ten years later. To the man of ability, inexperience in "doing things" will be no permanent handicap...
With little or no prospect of international polo in the U. S. next summer, last week's annual meeting of the U. S. Polo Association was one of the quietest on record. After re-electing last year's officers, the Association accepted the recommendations of the Handicap Committee, which left only 15 U. S. poloists ranked in the ''internationalist" class (seven goals or more). Highest, of course, was Thomas Hitchcock Jr., who has been one of the world's three ten-goal players since 1922.* Sport-writers who thought his play had declined were more...
...panacea of social ills and the bulwark of progress, the teaching profession still lags far behind others in earning public esteem and in drawing men of outstanding ability. Until the profession acquires new dignity and lustre, the Schools which train for it will remain under a distinct handicap...
...Caliente's golf tournament-first prize $15,000-is the richest in the world. Even more of an attraction than these for Hollywood plutocrats has been the racetrack, which was constructed at a cost of $2,500,000 by removing part of a mountain. The Annual Agua Caliente Handicap, which was to have been run on March 20 and for which the great Australian horse Pharlap was entered this year, is the richest-$150,000 -horse race in the world. James Nugent Crofton barked his announcement sadly last week. "There's no longer any use of our trying...