Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Jaakko Mikkola will send his cross country runners into the first inter-collegiate competition of the season this afternoon when the Varsity and Freshmen meet Holy Cross. Long known for its strong cross country teams. Holy Cross today may quite possibly be upset by a much improved Harvard contingent...
Most stimulating prospect afforded by early season football is the possibility of an upset. Most stimulating game on last week's schedule-between Minnesota, and Nebraska-was one in which an upset was inevitable. Minnesota, which had lost only one game (to Northwestern in the mud last year) since 1932, was being touted as the most highly regarded team in the U. S. But Major Lawrence ("Biff") Jones was making his debut as Nebraska's coach, and Major Jones had never in his coaching career lost an opening game...
...Burr and his subject delayed the operation until the day when previous microvoltmetre readings predicted an ovum would rupture out of a follicle of an ovary and cause a faint electrical upset. That overture to gestation occurred at 7:05 p.m. July 24 and threw the microvoltmetre out of whack for several seconds. Immediately the woman's potential slowly decreased. Said Dr. Burr last week: "The condition continued until midnight when the experiment was terminated in order that the patient might obtain a night's rest. Next morning a laparotomy was done, the ovaries examined...
...haven't improved. Familiarity breeds disinteredness, and certainly these three zanies are in their specialty number easier to resist than they were a year ago. Funniest is their plot work. Best of all their entrance, when, seated at a piano, one suddenly arises, and the others slide off an upset bench onto the floor...
...Georgetown, D. C., home of James Roosevelt, first son of the President, was looted in his absence. Stolen were a valuable pair of cuff links and a watch given him by his grandfather. Scattered about the upset rooms were whiskey, wine, and liqueur bottles, emptied by the thieves during their activities...