Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shining Hour (by Keith Winter; Max Gordon, producer). The first act of The Shining Hour is devoted to limning the Linden family, genteel Yorkshire farmers. The Lindens are excited by foxes, foals, jigsaw puzzles. They live in such smothering juxtaposition that any disturbance is likely to upset the whole family...
...fearless halfback, a member of the 1923 basketball team which some enthusiasts still rate the best of all time. Expert on defense, he scored a goal so rarely that, when he did, his teammates would double up with laughter. When "Rollie" Williams went to Iowa as assistant, he sorely upset Wisconsin's famed eccentric coach, Dr. Walter E. ("Little Doctor") Meanwell. Dr. Meanwell always suspected Iowa's Coach Barry, who came from Madison, Wis., of trafficking with spies on Wisconsin strategies. When Williams joined the Barry camp, Dr. Meanwell was convinced of the worst. But this season, when...
...year in mail subsidy, saying: "Just as sure as God made little apples, if we go into this round-the-world contract on an other 10 or 12 or 15 million dollars . . . we will spill the American merchant marine program. We must not do anything to upset the political applecart, as that is our life blood. Congressman Free has absolutely told the Post Office Department, and he is very close to one Herbert Hoover, that if Dollar gets any more money he will expose the whole thing on the floor of the House. That is a thing I am afraid...
...Agriculture prefers a voluntary system of acreage control such as is now in effect. He thinks in a year or two those who have not cooperated under the present plan will be persuaded to join in and that coercive tactics would later result in a reaction that might upset the whole plan...
Coach Fesler will use the same lineup which he used as an experiment in the Technology game on Wednesday night in which M. I. T. pulled a surprise and upset the Crimson team by a narrow 32-28 margin. Fesler feels that this lineup did not coordinate properly Wednesday because it did not have enough practice to develop team work, but with the drilling which it went through yesterday and will go through again today, an entirely different result may be expected. However, Fesler is not satisfied with the present lineup as the best possible combination, and will use tomorrow...