Word: handicaps
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...annual indoor handicap games of the Cambridgeport Gymnasium Association will be held on Monday evening, February 5, at 7:30 o'clock in the Cambridgeport Gymnasium, corner of Prospect and Harvard streets. The open events will be as follows: 20-yard dash, 140-yard run, 880-yard run, 1-mile run, high jump, putting 16-pound shot. Team races may be arranged later. An entry fee of 25 cents will be charged for the first event entered and 10 cents for each additional event. Prices will be given for first and second places. Entries which close on Monday...
...record, ensuring it a postseason-tournament berth for the first time since 1962. Air Force hasn't even had a winning season since '78. One reason is its tough league--the Mountain West Conference, dominated by teams like Utah and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Another major handicap: the Air Force places a height limit on recruits who want to become pilots, which eliminates most players over 6 ft. 8 in. (The actual measure is sitting height, which allows for some variation; the team's tallest player is 6 ft. 9 in.--smaller than most college...
Just Democracy co-founder Micah B. May, a second-year law student, said many voters encounter polling places that lack handicap access or bilingual ballots. He also said eligible voters are sometimes turned away after being mistaken for unregistered voters or convicted felons who have lost their right to vote...
...committee has offered no alternatives to relocating Gov Docs to Littauer, but such a move would be a serious handicap to undergraduates. Gov Docs’ current location in Lamont is convenient to undergraduates without hindering the access of the public, who are legally required to be able to see the collections. A move to Littauer Library, far from the Widener-Pusey-Lamont complex that holds most resources used by undergraduates, not only offers no substantive advantages but would also make Gov Docs available for far fewer and less convenient hours during the day?...
...That’s a real hardship and a real handicap,” he says...