Weather prediction was about on a par with race-horse Handicapping, and easy to explain after it happened.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
No attempt was made to make it so, and General Parsons would have quite definitely rejected any such ideal-though less fiercely than he would have repudiated the idea of Handicapping a man for his opinions or his creed.
"John Redmond's Last Years"
Stephen Gwynn
"She shouldn't have babies, then," Milly pronounced seriously, feeling her superiority in not thus Handicapping her husband in his career.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick