Word: stepchild
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...Once coaches stop treating kicking as football's stepchild, control will be commonplace" the article says...
...ever there was an ignored stepchild, the Law School is one. Once we leave the impeccable faculty, the scene is dismal. Austin Hall is a dingy relic, its classrooms ill-lighted, its accommodations cramped. Hastings is a typical New York tenement; Perkins, a cell block. Even so, they can house only a minority of the students. There are absolutely no dining facilities. We visit the A.A. during the Fall--after purchasing student books--and are handed seats (week after week) in the recesses of the Colonnades. Should we complain, one of their impolite minions snaps back that Harvard...
Both descendants of famed Man o' War,† War Admiral (his son) had been brought up like Little Lord Fauntleroy, while Seabiscuit (his grandson) had been treated like a fairy-book stepchild-sent out as a breadwinner in 35 overnight races and minor stakes when he was only two years old. As a three-year-old he was entered in a claiming race for $6,000, but no one wanted the homely little son of Hard Tack...
...application of their recondite science than in its theory. But it so happens that the man who knows more about the theory of Federal taxation than anyone in Washington is Under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Foster Magill. And the new tax bill is at least his stepchild if not his own baby...
Chapter 6. By the summer of 1935, however, Radio was ready to wash its hands of an unhappy stepchild. In the autumn Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp., biggest U. S. investment trust, paid Radio $5,000,000 for half of its interest in RKO, with an option on the rest to be exercised before the end of 1937. Joining Atlas in the purchase was Lehman Bros., interested in Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp...