Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Floyd Bennett to Boston. American's eight other Boston flights will still start from Newark and all will terminate there. Advantage: passengers to Boston save 20 min. ¶ Next to Newark, busiest U. S. airport is Chicago's Municipal Field. Chicagoans have long been upset by fear they might lose their air predominance because the airport was made hazardous to bigger planes by tracks of the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad across one end. For two years Mayor Edward J. Kelly has waged a battle to force the railroad out. Last week the two finally came to terms...
...week over the hardihood of Benidict Kampa of Whitehall, Wis. Just out of a hospital, Benidict was making a nice recovery after an automobile crash which tore out 4½ inches of his skull. In 1931, 4-year-old Benidict was horribly scorched when a kettle of boiling water upset on his head. In 1929, 2-year-old Benidict tripped into a hay chute, fell onto a cow, had his throat punctured by the animal's horns...
...partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold III who fixed April 11 for the contest. Declared the Premier: "I do not intend to campaign by radio. No candidate will resort to the radio. The country would only be uselessly upset through that kind of campaign." Thus was cut from beneath Rexist Degrelle's feet any chance of broadcasting Rexist propaganda under the cloak of vote-canvassing...
Harvard suffered an upset in the pole vault when Win Pettingell and Howard Cook found themselves among seven others unable to make 13 feet. Both have been doing considerably better all season
...influenced by her in public affairs, especially foreign politics. His behaviour to his mother, Queen Mary, is notoriously bad and was instigated by Mrs. Simpson. His professions of great concern for the unemployed which were used by his clique of cronies, headed by Esmond Harmsworth, as the weapon to upset the Government were rather insincere when compared with the facts. He gave ?10, ($50) on his Welsh visit, for the unemployed. On the other hand, he dismissed hundreds of employees at Balmoral & Sandringham, and sold off everything on these properties which was salable, and with the money thus saved...