Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superlatives. A record crowd (80,200) laid the largest amount ($805,082) in California racing history on the noses of the largest number of horses (23) ever to run in the richest Santa Anita Handicap in history. The winner: a six-year-old outsider named War Knight (one of eleven "field" horses), which paid $15.30 for a $2 mutuel ticket...
About the same time, in Essex County, N.J., Frank Van Dyk, ex-hospital fund raiser, solved Blue Cross's worst handicap. He persuaded all the county's hospitals to join in one group, permit subscribers to go to any hospital they chose. This is now standard Blue Cross practice...
...rapes, assassinations, and revolutionary plots of his children, then sought and found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist, not very interesting...
...decades of dutiful adventuring in business, Averell Harriman took flyers in foreign mines, in steamship lines, a motion-picture enterprise, and airlines. He stayed with none of them. His interest in Labrador retrievers and international polo-which he played with an eight-goal handicap-seemed more genuine...
...more obvious explanation of Spellman's rise in the Church is that he has qualities the Church wants in its leaders. The hierarchy is always eager to make the most of its personnel, and an industrious young cleric can be sure that a strain of humility will not handicap his rise in the Church Militant. His superiors will see that he learns the art of patience. When Rome first suggested to Cardinal O'Connell that Spellman join the Vatican Secretariat, the Cardinal, who did not always look kindly upon the rising young cleric, kept Spellman in suspense...