Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every important act of man tends to upset the balance of nature. Last week along 1,300 miles of Pacific littoral, from far south of Point Conception to far north of Cape Disappointment, clouds of seagulls flapped anxiously over the waves, ranging out beyond their normal habitats to look in vain for ship-strewn garbage. Because Pacific coast shipowners and the maritime labor unions were fighting, the seagulls were going hungry. It had been this way for two weeks and last week's end brought no improvement...
...only did Yale win the Varsity game, but to make the Crimson downfall complete, the Eli jayvees trimmed Harvard 4-3, and the Bulldog cubs upset Harvard's freshmen...
...population voting, as in the last two elections, some 36% voted last week. Most of these, millions of normally silent votes apparently went to the New Deal, with the result that Franklin Roosevelt piled up 60.4% of the popular vote. The extent of this upset was not evident even after the greater part of the ballots were counted. Several Republican victories and a majority of the close contests turned out, three or four days later, when every last ballot was counted, to be Democratic successes. Result was that the statisticians, having reported that Democrats had elected...
...reason why the King shouldn't marry Mrs. Simpson if he wishes-even if Mrs. Simpson is an American. It is no offense to be an American. Naturally the 'charmed circle' in this country would be upset, but we Communists certainly shouldn't worry about it. If he wants to marry her, as far as I am concerned I will say: 'Good luck to him, and good luck to her!' We ought to get Socialism and have no King, and when the system goes so will the King...
Navy's Jayvee football squad upset the Crimson's undefeated eleven Saturday 18-0 in a game played at Soldiers Field just before the Varsity game...