Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writers on Japan agree that the most serious handicap to beauty, of the Japanese women, is their short legs. Good Mayor LaGuardia is similarly handicapped...
...brilliant past means anything, Jim Lightbody will be a fitting successor to Haydock. Son of an Olympic runner, Lightbody broke his back in high school and seemed shut out of track for life. As a Freshman he had already overcome this handicap when he made the Oxford-Cambridge meet; for two years now he has been unbeatable over the 440 and 880 distances...
Once more, it is vicious because of the rich man, poor man problem. There is a premium on the long purse; and Mammon has his share in dictating grades. The financially less able scholar is given an unfair handicap in the contest with a wealthy competitor. Sentiment on this score is intense and vigorous...
...that its theatres are too big, its language foreign, its settings antiquated. A simple melodist in his own music, Menotti dismisses most modernists as bad craftsmen, thinks the salvation of music lies in a return to intelligible musical language. U. S. composers, he thinks, are under an unfair handicap: "You still want foreign names; that's one thing that has been in my favor." About his operatic preoccupation with feminine foibles, 27-year-old Menotti explains: "Women, to fascinate men, must not be too good. I'm celebrating the wickedness of women...
Boston University has lost its only two games this spring, to Rhode Island State, 5 to 2, and to Tufts, 10 to 8. The ragged infielding which partly accounted for these defeats will handicap the Boston team from the start. HARVARD B. U. Johns, 2b rf, Denisvitch Gannett, cf lf, Di Nubla Grondahl, 3b 1b, Rotman Lupien, 1b 3b, Quinn Hoye, lf c, Walker Tully, rf cf, Hardiman Fulton, c ss, Conaty Keyes, ss 2b, Conaty Healey, p p, Hoar