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Handicaps are amazingly predictive when they are real—that is, when every score is accurately posted.
Fighting Back Against Sandbaggers John Paul Newport 2011
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Handicaps take strokes from the strong and give them to the weak, allowing golfers of all ability levels to play together as friends.
The Many Ways Golf Beats Politics John Paul Newport 2011
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The six-week camp's name is an acronym for Answering the Needs of Citizens with Handicaps through Organized Recreation.
Meadowbrook Parkway Crash Kills Three Camp Anchor Counselors (VIDEO) 2010
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She wrote a number of articles, plays, and pamphlets on immigration and conditions of Jews in Latin America, including Handicaps in Naturalization, which influenced Congress to reduce naturalization fees.
Cecilia Razovsky. 2009
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Handicaps, stumbling blocks, prejudices — all of these are imperfect.
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The Relief of the worst of physical Handicaps in my Day had already been undertaken by means of Improvements to artificial Limbs & Teeth, Glass Eyes, etc.
What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host? Ann Althouse 2009
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During the season, Handicaps, open only to frequenters of the Rooms, will be held, and Handsome Prizes in Cash will be given.
Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches David Drummond Bone
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Secretaries 'Sprinting Handicaps will be held this year.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Various
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But the evening of the Handicaps we took him back to the boarding house with us, and he sat beside Fosgill and ate ravenously of everything placed before him.
The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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Handicaps had been fixed as equitably as possible according to each player's previous record, and players having similar handicaps were to play against each other.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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