Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who has as bumpy a reputation as a pilot as the former Prince of Wales had as a rider, flew his wife and some friends from Harrisburg to Christmas dinner in Philadelphia. Landing, he upset the plane, hurled passengers against the windshield, luckily killed nobody...
Five teams tied for the lead in inter-House basketball competition when Lowell and Dunster were upset in yesterday's games at the Indoor Athletic Building by Winthrop and Adams...
...smaller studios. Each auditorium seat was upholstered in material as sound-absorbent as the average spectator and his clothes, to provide equal acoustical values for rehearsals in empty studios and broadcasts played to packed houses. (This trick was used earlier in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, is upset only by an uncommonly dressy audience. For starched-shirt bosoms are poor absorbers, bounce sounds back toward the stage.) Unseen were 20 miles of cable, some 500 vacuum tubes, 100 amplifiers, a gasoline-driven generator for emergency use in Hollywood's next flood, many another foresighted gadget...
...Pacific Coast Conference titans had experienced any nightmares at the thought of inviting Pitt's famed "dream team" to the Rose Bowl, it was relieved at what happened in Pittsburgh last week. In an upset far more shocking than that in California, a well coordinated Carnegie Tech machine that had been lying in ambush for a 25th-anniversary meeting with its mighty neighbor, overpowered the Pitt powerhouse, 20-to-10, toppled it from the pedestal where it was basking in a record of 22 games without defeat. Thus the two outstanding power teams of the U. S. tumbled...
...that. Today no major college sticks to either of these famed post-War standard brands of play. Each coach teaches his own version of the Notre Dame or the Warner-or a cross-breeding of both-varying his attack to suit the talents of his players and to upset the calculations of his opponents. Although tackling and blocking still win most football games, contemporary coaches must have a fat bag of offensive tricks (some have as many as 200). What the 1938 coach sees in his pipe dreams is a magician at every position-not only to fool his opponents...