Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advanced Fantasy. At 49, James Thurber is a greying, railish six-footer who has been prolific of achievement in the face of physical handicap. For years specialists have been fighting to save Thurber's one remaining eye. The other was accidentally put out by an arrow in the hands of his eldest brother when James...
Dodds, who has run a 4:06.1 mile for the fastest citizen's time officially recorded, recently requested permission to enter the 3.7 mile Handicap Course event in order to practice for coming mile contests...
...progressive" (June 28, 1937), a "topflight layman" of the Episcopal Church (Dec. 8, 1941), etc. Many a reader will recall hearing of Charlie Taft as a Phi Beta Kappa football and basketball star at Yale, a World War I veteran (first lieutenant), the father of seven children, a 7-handicap golfer, a onetime Landon brain-truster, a personable Cincinnati lawyer, and the possessor of a typical Taft dimple as well as his father's ability to make friends and have fun. Once before, in TIME Letters (Aug. 24, 1936), he was nominated for President. TIME would be happy...
...will send its best cross-country runners to Harvard tomorrow to do battle with Jaako Mikkola's Navy runners. The event will be held on the 3.7 mile handicap course, and the squad will gather at the Dillon Field House before the races...
...surprise of the evening came in the last two numbers where, in spite of the handicap of having rehearsed in a downstairs room of the Music Building and thus being unable to judge the acoustics of a larger hall, the orchestra proved admirably adept in getting across the brilliant tonalities of the Hindemith and Debussy-Busser selections without letting the fortissimos get out of hand...