Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gorry, varsity cross-country captain, overcame a six minute handicap to win the Hyde Shoe A. A. 12-mile handicap road race Saturday. Gerry's time was 1 hour, 9:36 minutes, which, with a six minute handicap, was recorded officially...
...in1953, has cut production 30%, and the company has had to cut itsdividend. Mason thinks that there is a trend to small cars, for city and suburban driving. If the Metropolitan catches on, he will be in a position to step up production rapidly. However, the car's handicap is its price. The Rambler Deluxe is only $100 more, and Ford and Chevrolet come within $200 of it, f.o.b. Detroit, on their cheapest models. But Mason thinks hard selling can put the car over. Says he: "Our refrigerator boys are selling, and they had a tough time. If they...
Almost every spring, Stuffy McInnis faces a doubly-difficult problem in molding a varsity baseball team. Graduation losses are only part of the problem; lack of practice is an almost equal handicap. For Cambridge weather is seldom warm and often wet until the season has actually begun...
...most U.S. congressional districts, a man whose wife has accused him of adultery with a round dozen women would be carrying an impossible political handicap. But in California's 26th (southwest Los Angeles) this week, James Roosevelt, F.D.R.'s eldest son, stood up before the 26th's Democratic district convention to ask its endorsement as the party's candidate for Congress. A few delegates booed, but the majority heard Jimmy out, cheered him heartily. By a vote of 91-77 the convention endorsed Jimmy for the party nomination in the heavily Democratic 26th...
...Republican Party now operates under the handicap of sustaining individualism, but the true conservative does not object to legislative authority," he said...