Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurdity in British interference with freedom of the Press came last week when London newsdealers refused to handle the Christmas number of Esquire. Reason: it contains a dreary piece of pseudo-satire entitled "POPULAR YOUNG MATRON-Mr. Simpson's Daughter Only Proved the Generalization That Stupidity Is No Handicap to a Proper Woman." No character in this piece of obviously pure fiction remotely resembles anyone appertaining to the King's Mrs. Simpson...
...actual test of what can be expected for the winter season will be made in the middle of the month when in place of the annual handicap meet, there will be a duel between the Freshmen and Varsity. And already it's being whispered confidentially that the Freshmen have a good chance of winning...
Eleven fighting Deacons smashed through a six-point half-time handicap Thursday afternoon to down Winthrop 12 to 6, and walked off with the 1936 House football title. They will meet the champion team among the Yale colleges later this month, to decide the House-College supremacy...
Interest in the most minor of all minor sports, ping pong, has risen to such an extent that there are now two regular University teams and a large handicap tournament every Wednesday evening. The two teams, the Harvard Independents and the Tennis and Squash Shop Racketmen, are chosen from a bumping ladder...
...present the leading Crimson pongers are the two Sherfy brothers, 1L, each of whom have a handicap of minus eight. These two, along with Frank W. Edlin '38 and Max G. Manker '38, comprise the Independents. In team matches the quartet plays eight singles and two doubles encounters...