Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruction in reading springs from the Dean's Office's recognition of the fact that poor scholastic records can be causes by many factors besides lack of intelligence. The College has known for some time that difficulty in reading is a great handicap to the student...
...Biggest handicap: although no General College student flunks out, 35% of them quit each year...
...other respects: it serves as the first big get-together of the season for two-year-olds; it is the national marketplace for the country's yearlings. Though many turf enthusiasts are looking forward to a possible meeting of Charles S. Howard's sensational Argentine-bred Kayak II, foremost handicap horse of the year, and William Woodward's fleet-footed Johnstown, foremost three-year-old of the year, field glasses at this Saratoga season, like all its predecessors, will focus on the 500 or more two-year-olds making their debut in swank racing society...
Being told what he must do is constitutionally distasteful to Franklin Roosevelt. Being told what he must do in case war breaks out in the world, he considers-and Secretary of State Hull agrees with him-to be a handicap to statesmanship. In seeking revision of the Neutrality law which Congress fastened upon him two years ago, Mr. Roosevelt this year sought primarily to remove his obligation to declare an embargo on "implements of war" for belligerents. The revised Neutrality act offered in the House last month by New York's prognathous Sol Bloom was drawn with this...
...boatload seems to have one important handicap. They have in the past found it hard to turn on the power with a low stroke. In their nip-and-tuck race with Cornell they were unable to lower the beat to a thirty-four...