Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombed Berlin la haute couture was peeping boldly too. In draughty salons along what was once the elegant Kurfürstendamm, bright-eyed mannequins modeled the first designs after the defeat. They were almost as frothy as France's after victory. The shortage of materials was a handicap, but gold lame, for instance, could be made to do for both cocktail gowns and housecoats (see cut). For Berlin's new army of cyclists there was a snappy yellow-&-black suit with a matching belt in canary suede...
Next spring the company will punch a $70 million railway line from Seven Islands on the St. Lawrence northward along the Moisie River. This will provide a lifeline to Ungava, will cut shipping costs on materials to build a townsite and possibly an airfield. The company's chief handicap: Ungava's early freeze-up and late thaw limit mining operations to about three months a year...
...first, the Winnipeg Ballet started ambitiously with a 48-piece orchestra in the pit, put a heavy handicap of debt on the troupe. But in 1941 the success of Walt Disney's Fantasia led to a money-saving experiment in canned music. Now the ballet is danced to recordings, boomed at the spectators from loudspeakers. Despite the tour, the company...
...hardest fought battle recorded on the intramural score book, Dudley Halls Commuters battled down a hard-fighting Lowell five 20 to 18 yesterday afternoon, overcoming a four point half-time handicap...
Most of the technical equipment shows the handicap of financial limitations--a somewhat bare stage and unimaginative costumes, especially for the three female roles. Wigs in most cases, improved little, due mainly to anachronistic hair styles. All these faults contribute, unfortunately, toward the failure of the Dramatic Club's presentation of "Le Misanthrope" as an adequate representation of either Moliere's or the HDC's potentialities...