Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea that one out of three students at Harvard Law are flunked out. "Actually, the number who don't come back after the first year is about 10 percent," he said. "And half of those turn out to be at some disadvantage, such as poor health, which would handicap them at any school...
Citation, the wonder horse, has covered a lot of ground since winning the $50,000 Tanforan Handicap last fall-but none in actual competition. Most of it has been in railway express cars between San Francisco, Miami, Baltimore and Belmont Park. Like a football hero on crutches, Citation was traveling with Calumet Farm's first team while trainers fussed & fumed over his popped osselet...
...swell again. Ben Jones, as patient as he is wily, put his star back on the shelf with a crisp remark: "We don't need him right now." The rest of the team was clicking. Coaltown, whose efforts included a world-record mile-in 1:34-had the handicap division over a barrel; Kentucky Derby-winning Ponder, runaway victor in the recent $66,150 American Derby at Washington Park, was the nation's top money-winning three-year-old. If anybody mourned Citation's absence, it was the gloom-mongers who seemed to take morbid satisfaction...
Even so, Ben does not expect to have Citation ready to roll until winter. Casually, Ben adds, "We'll need him for those big stakes in California." Ben could afford to be casual about that announcement, but to other horsemen with an eye on the $100000 Santa Anita Handicap and sundry $50,000 prizes, Ben's words were big, solemn news...
...heavy complement of assorted brogues, lively jigs and Gaelic gobbledygook. Arthur Shields, brother of Irishman Barry Fitzgerald, acted as technical adviser. The film's best feature: a handful of little-known traditional Irish airs-one of them a love tune sung by Ann Blyth. Its severest handicap: two typical jukebox tunes which Bing is required to sing a few too many times...