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Word: handicaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This intra-mural meet, which has become the traditional curtain raiser of Crimson outdoor track seasons, offers every student in the University the opportunity to challenge all comers aided by an equalizing handicap based on past performances and potential appearances. In addition Coach Mikkole can both size up the qualifications of his competing track men and keep his eye open for hidden talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Track Handicap Will Commence Today | 4/11/1941 | See Source »

This afternoon is the time for swimmers, would-be-swimmers, dog-paddlers, and just floaters, to compete on even terms with Varsity tankmen when the University handicap swimming meet is run off at 4:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handicap Swim Tournament To Be Held This Afternoon | 3/20/1941 | See Source »

...potential Varsity natators in the University will have an opportunity to show their stuff when the annual University Handicap swimming championships are run off tomorrow at 4:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Tournament To Be Tomorrow; No '44 Meet | 3/19/1941 | See Source »

...suffered from the loss of winter tourist trade got the ban lifted in 1915, and Colonel Edward Riley Bradley, owner of Kentucky's famed Idle Hour Farm, who took over the old course in 1925, turned it into a show place. The Colonel built up the New Orleans Handicap purse to $50,000 - the U. S.'s richest winter stake. Those brave days lasted seven years. Then Louisiana's oafish dictator, Huey Long, decided it was time for Bradley to go. Up went the Fair Grounds' real-estate assessment to prohibitive heights, and out went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fair Grounds Saved | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Entering the theatre already equipped with personal imagery for the music is a handicap, but the most expert of musicologists can thoroughly enjoy "Fantasia" if he will make a little effort at mental flexibility to meet the draftsmen balfway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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