Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every four years the wheels of industry, the fleets that sail the seas, the post office department, and the society columns of the newspapers, indeed, the whole world is upset by an insidious confusion that arises from the fact that we have an extra day thrown into an otherwise smoothly running stream of time. The system is so inaccurate that every four hundred years, as regularly as the sun rises and sets, we must skip a Leap Year. Could anything be more ridiculous than skipping a Leap Year...
...then only if the paper isn't of especially high grade, we hereby go out on the limb and predict a Harvard victory in the Quadrangular Meet in the Garden tonight. Cornell, Dartmouth and Yale should finish in that order after the crimson runners if nothing comes along to upset our calculations...
Forcing the issue throughout the match, Glidden was in danger only in the second game when his opponent's soft lobbing and easy drop shots appeared to upset the Crimson star, but the rallied and ran out the last game and a half with little difficulty...
Considerably upset were these peace-lovers when Walter Millis, author of Road to War, text book of the Peace Bloc (TIME, Jan. 20), declared in a Scripps-Howard interview: "Extension of last year's arms embargo is about as far as we can proceed safely with a neutrality program at present. ... We must not forget that legislation may work in a quite unforeseeable fashion when an actual war arises. ... No man can say categorically how any neutrality program would function in the face of a real crisis such as a serious outbreak in Europe...
Using masterful strokes, Glidden carried the play throughout the match to win in straight games, 15-11, 15-11, 15-7. His opponent in the finals will be Andrew C. Ingraham '31, of Cleveland, who upset Neil Sullivan, seeded number two and former National Champion...