Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody gets very upset over the "Perfect Specimen." Trivial to an unsurpassed degree, none of the leading roles in the picture show any appreciable amount of acting ability. Edward Everett Horton, as Miss Robson's secretary, and boxer Hugh (Woo-Woo!) Herbert are amusing enough. Best line:--Miss Robeson, on being awakened by a lustily crowing cock, cries, "Dismiss the rooster...
...recent upset in the plans for the Leverett-Army Dance has clearly shown the need for some body, suitably empowered, to function as an arbiter in the matter of determining dates and other arrangements for the social activities of the several Houses. The Chairmen of the House Committees have been meeting informally, without an executive, and without any rules of procedure, or secretary to record the minutes of the meetings. Consequently, any decisions arrived at have never been concretely recorded. The House Committees of Houses un-represented at these meetings have not received any notification of the proceedings. This fall...
...which scored a 4-to-o victory over the football sensation of the age, Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indians. It emerged again after the War when Centre College, an almost unheard of institution of 200 students at Danville, Ky. flared up briefly with All-America Quarterback Bo McMillin* and upset a string of topflight U. S. teams...
...Three times in the past ten years a great Notre Dame team had been upset by Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech. Last week, an undefeated Notre Dame eleven gained 235 yards by rushing, to Carnegie's seven, made 15 first downs, to Carnegie's two. But at the end stubborn Carnegie Tech was ahead by the margin of a field goal. Score...
...Upset of the week, in which Coach Ossie Solem's young but smart Syracuse eleven bested one of the finest Cornell teams in years, was also distinguished by the most dazzling play of the week. In the third quarter, Syracuse's dusky Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, reputedly the only Hindu footballer in the U. S., caught a pass from his teammate, Olympic Sprinter Marty Glickman, faded back and hurled the ball high over the Cornell tacklers, apparently into space but actually into the waiting hands of the same Marty Glickman, who a few plays later was able to make...