Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...person is almost nonexistent; even those who seem totally deaf to others usually have some slight remnant of hearing. With the help of powerful hearing aids, that remnant can be trained to distinguish speech rhythms. Sign language, Clarke insists, produces only a limited vocabulary. It calls attention to the handicap, keeps the deaf child perpetually a stranger in the world of the hearing...
Tomorrow, another strong Big Red team will face the varsity, with the same problems which plagued its predecessor. Again Coach Lefty James must overcome the handicap of a forward wall bolstered by only one letterman. And again Cornell seems to have gotten off to a slow start...
...Taking his time at the start. King Ranch's hefty brown colt High Gun splashed from behind in mud and fog to win the Sysonby Handicap, so-called "Race of Champions," at Belmont Park. Second by a mud-splattered head: Main Chance Farm's Jet Action. Third: Belair Stud's three-year-old champion, Nashua, running for the first time against older horses. At Atlantic City, Irish-bred Blue Choir, a four-year-old colt, ridden by leading U.S. Jockey Willie Hartack. won the third running of the $104,600 United Nations Handicap. Second: Fox-Catcher Farms...
Behind the Trappings. For a Prussian prince, Wilhelm began life in 1859 with a crushing handicap. He was born with a crippled left arm and rapidly picked up the inferiority complex that went with it. He was afraid to ride, used a special knife-fork gadget at meals, and exercised his right arm relentlessly to make up for the weakness of the other. As if one physical handicap were not enough, he suffered from a "scrofulous" ear sickness that made a court physician advise an insurance company not to write a policy on his life. Later, many highly placed Germans...
...Angeles' Ira P. Fulmor, kept radio silence as he searched for favorable winds. Now Fulmor and his navigator, Robert T. Leary, were pulling the same stunt. When they broke silence they were less than 200 miles off Diamond Head, with more than enough of their 98-hour handicap left to take top honors. The times were too close for comfort, but, under the formula, Staghound won her second trans-Pacific victory...