Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yesterday, who criticized Yale, Harvard and Princeton for never starting fall football practice prior to September 15th, voiced an opinion which has been expressed continually since the agreement was first reached. Pointing to this "Obvious fault," he advanced the new hackneyed objection that these Universities are under a decided handicap when they compete in early season games with institutions which begin football a month or so before college opens. In suggesting a remedy he was no more original, merely-advising that these institutions now having the September 15th rule should join the big parade and call back football candidates just...
From a squad of 60 men Coach Rufus Bond has selected a Freshman starting team. With but 10 days of practice the Freshman team possesses a further handicap which will be difficult to overcome...
...usual, fall practice will be conducted informally and there will be no outside meets in connection with the workouts. Regular practice is to be held daily from two o'clock on. The University Fall Handicap meet and separate meets for University and Freshman squads will probably be held late in October...
...nation's War debt. But the War had cost British industry its primary markets in the Dominions and South America, where the U. S. entered, and India, which Japan began to penetrate. That made the harder taxes harder to pay. The rise in sterling was a handicap to industry in its foreign trade. Little capital was available, little desire evident to rationalize industry. And industry needed rationalizing. No sooner had sterling been restored than troubles began...
Such talk from two regular and conservative Republicans sounded almost like heresy to their G. O. P. colleagues. Had Messrs. Reed & Bacharach forgotten that a Presidential election was coming, that any tax increase would handicap President Hoover in that race and make campaign cash collections doubly difficult? To offset their words, Senate Leader James Eli Watson trundled down to the White House, talked long and earnestly with President Hoover about taxation. He emerged to use the White House lobby as a sounding board for his fiscal ideas...