Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lack of practical experience and drill handicap those planning to treat emergency ailments. Bi-weekly bandaging practice is hardly a substitute for contact with the injuries involved such as might be gained by periodic visits to Boston hospitals. Work in a hospital is an essential part of the training of every nurse or interne, and a first-aid training course which never shows a real wound is not likely to breed men who can recognize the injury with which they have to deal and can attack it with efficient objectivity...
With the exception of Whirlaway, who is still lounging at California's blacked-out Santa Anita, nearly every glamor horse in the U.S. was entered in Florida's Widener Handicap, richest race of the winter season...
Physical qualifications, Professor Seavey admitted, may be a serious handicap to some, for the requirements for commissions are higher than those for enlistment. "Some men who have weak eyes or who are color-blind," he said, "may find that while they are quite acceptable as a private, they are not qualified to be an officer...
...American Wolf, a 17-to-1 shot: the Bahamas Handicap, first noteworthy horse race of the Florida season; before a crowd of 16,000; at Miami's Hialeah Park. Among the also-rans was Alsab, wonder horse of 1941, who was making his debut as a three-year-old. Alsab was assigned top weight of 128 Ib. (14 more than American Wolf), went to the post odds-on favorite, finished sixth in the field...
Harvard's entry in the dash is Bill Trainer. The sprint is a handicap affair, and if the officials aren't scared by Doug Pirnie's performance in winning this event last year, and give Bill the handicap he should have, there is a good chance for a Crimson place here. Although Bill is not in shape yet, he is running much beter than last year. Clark of Yale is the man to watch, while Talbot, another Eli, and a free-lancer named Thompson are all good possibilities. Barney Ewell from Penn State is the best man in the country...