Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sticks as well as the big time, he asked no quarter, always gave his backers a run for their money. One summer, at Detroit, he won three races within eight days. One winter at Tropical Park he ran off with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky...
...first to bring this problem up and was instrumental in its solution, expects that the integration of these two groups will be his immediate problem. In addition, however, he is faced with the question of adapting Brooks House policies to heavy wartime demands and to the handicap of a depleted college...
...amateur Mickey Sullivans, Hermann E. Howard 3G.B, and Edward Mikrut 2G.B. have no doubts but that their polished campaign will be successful, but admit a serious handicap in that their drive has no such euphonious name as the "Lowell Mole Patrol." "But Prune Face is the most sensational character since the Mile was put away," they insist. They best they've thought of is "Make a Plum of Prune Face." In any case, they think they've found the golden apple, and Dick Tracy will make everything peachy...
...reviewer had played up more dramatically Harriet's really amazing achievement. This was not writing a lively and realistic description of our infant republic, but rather in spite of serious deafness collecting the facts for it. My lifelong interest in Harriet was inspired by her handicap, for I, too, have been seriously deaf all my life...
...amendment would handicap the War Department in building an immediately available, powerful striking force to take quick advantage of any opportunity to put a speedy...