Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Morris and Don French showed excellent early season form yesterday although they finished sixth and seventh in the annual University Handicap cross-country run. Arthur Reider, a freshman running with a time handicap, was the actual winner of the 3 1/2 mile run down the banks of the Charles...
...time basis, however, the second five finishers did better than the winning quintet, but the five-minute handicap was too much for the varsity runners to overcome. Morris, captain of last year's freshman squad, finished in 18 min., 34.5 sec.; and French was right behind...
...occupied, Andy began to buy race horses. In 1947 he bought two thoroughbreds from Movie Magnate Louis B. Mayer; they both turned out to be winners. Andy, it seemed, had as sharp an eye for horseflesh as he had for car customers. This year, with Derby Winner Determine and Handicap Star Imbros leading his string of more than 20 horses, Crevolin is the top money-winning owner in the U.S. Moreover, Andy Crevolin talks as freely as his horses...
...postwar race for world markets, the U.S. gave itself a heavy handicap. It poured $35 billion of foreign-aid money into the economies of other countries (e.g., $207 million into Europe's iron and steel industry, $35 million into its auto industry). To many businessmen, the foreign-aid program has succeeded too well; they complain that they are losing business to their eager new competitors abroad...
Pridi the Nationalist. Thailand (Siam) has little in common with Indo-China; it has been independent since the late 18th century (except for the Japanese occupation in World War II), and is therefore free from Indo-China's colonial handicap...