Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Wood is conscious of one handicap. "I've felt all along," said he last week, "that my work has been entirely experimental... I didn't have to worry about how or why it worked like it did. That had to be polished off by someone else." In 1951, scientists were still polishing the work that Robert Wood has done...
...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...
...Counterpoint, C. V. Whitney's brilliant, brittle colt, the $59,600 Empire City Handicap; at Jamaica, N.Y. The victory made him the top money-winner ($250,525) of the year, but a cracked hoof put him-out of competition until...
...year-old, the colt raced only twice, earning a measly $700. This year, since running a dull eleventh in the Kentucky Derby, he has turned into the runningest three-year-old in the U.S. He broke the track record at Belmont to win the Peter Pan Handicap, captured the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, bruised a foot so badly he was laid up for two months, then came back to win the Lawrence Realization and the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup, in which he upset odds-on four-year-old Hill Prince...
...handicap of jet aircraft engines is the tedious, time-wasting process of starting them. It takes about five minutes for a crew of three in a jeep rigged with ten storage batteries for extra electric power to rev an engine up to starting speed. If a jet plane lands on a field that lacks the starting equipment, it has to stay there...