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Word: upset (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beasting only one outstanding swimmer. Captain Paul Williams, a mediocre Pennsylvania team will strive to upset Harvard in the Crimson's first Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League meet, tonight...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SWIMMERS TO FACE WEAK PENN TONIGHT | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...next Crimson meet, and the first league meet for the Ulenmen, comes this Saturday when a weak Pennsylvania team will hope for an upset in the local pool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPMEN EDGE HUSKIES; MERMEN MEET BOSTON "Y" | 2/8/1939 | See Source »

This will be just another meet for the Ulenmen as they speed preparations for their league debut against the Pennsylvania Quakers next Saturday. Victims of a 38 to 37 upset at the hands of the powerful Brown Bruins, the Crimson tankers have been practicing steadily during the examination period and should not be stale despite the competition layoff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TANKMEN FAVORED TO DUCK CORNELL | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...giant, and all motormakers except Henry Ford. In 1938, he quarreled with his co-founders and lieutenants, and his union of 375,000 men (third largest in C. I. O.) was saved from falling apart only when John L. Lewis practically took control of it. Last week Homer Martin upset this much-joggled applecart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...National Service, onetime Ambassador to the U. S., did not tranquilize the atmosphere when he told British housewives that they ought to put some things away for a bomby day. Not only should they store food; they should also store water in bottles and jugs. In order not to upset the commodity markets, he said, they should buy very slowly and calmly. English housewives are literal-minded. Next day merchants reported sales of canned goods and water jugs falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Life in London | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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