Word: upset
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...desperate attempt to wipe out the ever-increasing fuel difficulties. Though an effort to remedy a grievous situation, it is rather a confession of inability to cope with the problem by other means. Because the Government regulator has failed to arrange a satisfactory coal schedule he must now upset business. In haste and by sensational means, he tries to bring about in a short while what he has been unable to accomplish in several months. Instead of accommodating the supply of coal to the industries, he must now accommodate the industries to the supply of coal. Those are the obvious...
...Haven Saturday the Princeton freshmen upset all calculations by defeating the Yale yearlings 9 to 7 in a game won by a 43-yard goal from placement in the final moments of play. The Yale team was a heavy favorite as it had defeated the University eleven, which had won from the Orange and Black team 24 to 0 two weeks ago. The first score came in the second period when Harvey, a Princeton end, ran 50 yards for a touchdown. In the second half Yale gained a one-point lead on a touchdown by Lay and a goal...
...about to die in the company of his sister and a parson, who looks in at the last moment to say that the boy is certain to go to hell if he does not repent immediately. As there is nothing in particular to repent of, the boy is considerably upset and distressed, until his sister turns out the parson and assures her brother it is all a mistake. This cheerful little piece has a certain genuine pathos and is written with a feeling for style, but it lacks true theatrical effect...
...universities of the Middle West are just as alert as the great private colleges and institutions in the East. There is, perhaps, one difference, for the state universities which are required to have some military training, and have accordingly been accustomed to the preparedness movement, are not quite so upset over the developments of the last two months...
...followed by a call for the mobilization of a half-million men. The response is not doubtful; twice that number could probably be enlisted within a very short time. But the sudden withdrawal of so large a body from the productive activities of the country would almost surely upset our whole economic organization, all the more so because those who are most needed in industry or transportation would be among the first to respond in case of a general call for enlistments. In this matter the costly experience of England should have taught us a lesson...