Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week, 30 U.S. flyers had become aces in Korea. One cocky pilot snorted that the requirement for acehood ought to be raised to ten kills; then added: "Ten-hell, make it 15 or 20, and put 100 pounds of cabbage in our tail assemblies as a handicap...
...American class has no hand brakes and no gears, and thus earns a six minute handicap. Touring, which has hand-brakes and up to three gears, is allowed a lesser handicap or two and a half minites. Racing class bicycles are any other kind...
...second serious handicap to research has been high overhead. Almost one third of all money spent on projects pays for indirect costs and eats into precious funds necessary for experiments. Regrettably, the majority of grants stipulate only a ten to twenty-five percent cut for meeting such costs. The difference must be made up by the school. Experts feel this overhead difficulty will only be cured when the faculty accepts grants which pay for "total cost"--both indirect and direct...
...major handicap in cancer research has been the difficulty of growing human cancers in laboratory animals so that a whole arsenal of chemicals, viruses and antibiotics may be tested directly upon the human instead of the animal varieties of the disease. Dr. Helene Wallace Toolan of Manhattan's Memorial Center reported that during the last year she had found what seemed to be the answer: human cancers took hold readily and grew well in rats that had first been dosed with cortisone. The hope in it for humans: more human cancer tissue to experiment with safely...
...Frank Small, a New Zealand housewife, flubs around the fairways (handicap: 17) like any other golfer, but off the tees she is phenomenal. Last January, she was naturally elated when she scored the golfer's dream: a hole in one. Then, in ten weeks of play, she scored three more. Last week Mrs. Small was the sensation of the Antipodes. Playing on her home course at Invercargill, where there are four short holes (190, 135, 120 and 114 yds.), Mrs. Small sank Hole-in-One No. 5. Two days later, playing before a buzzing, unbelieving gallery, she smacked another...