Word: handicaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nationality. Not only language, but inter-racial insight and a grasp of a foreign culture have been the fruits of a conscientious attempt on the part of the student at self dependence. There have been, of course, men whose thirst for Keokuk or Hartford was so great as to handicap them even in their work, yet for the most part the disease is distinguished by rapid recovery and pleasant convalescence...
...Norman W. Church's four-year-old Gallant Sir: the $25,000 Agua Caliente Handicap, in 2:02.6, a shade better than Phar Lap's track record last year; outclassing a field in which he was favored at 1 to 5; at Agua Caliente, Mexico...
...musical scene, married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, in 1918 became conductor of the Detroit Symphony. When Violinist Albert Spalding started to plow out his career, he reversed the route Gabrilowitsch had taken. In the U. S. Spalding found that it was a handicap to be the handsome, athletic-looking son of a rich U. S. sporting-goods manufacturer. Audiences, he said, seemed to expect him to come on the platform in a baseball suit. Albert Spalding packed up his violin, went to Russia, made his name there. But throughout their careers Spalding and Gabrilowitsch have...
Despite its five-goal handicap, the Varsity polo team lost 10-9 to the Canaries in the final match of the Boston Indoor Polo League at the Commonwealth Armory last night. The proceeds of this match, which decided the winner of the Reynolds Cup, will be turned over to the Boston Emergency Relief Campaign...
...faced bellowing Leader Robinson is at heart a level-headed conservative who will do his utmost to keep the Roosevelt legislative program on the track. The same quick temper which once set him fighting on a Washington golf course is Leader Robinson's greatest handicap in uniting his followers...