Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this the possibility of Yale's having a hot night, and the varsity an off-night, and you have an upset...
...Boston, Beatrice Lillie came down with an upset stomach, had to call off one evening's performance of the touring Inside U.S.A. The management refunded $5,500 to 1,700 disappointed playgoers...
...small weekly papers had switched to dailies, but they were not up to the job of telling the news. Not all Portlanders missed their newspapers. Some thought no news of the world's troubles was good news-at least for a while. Said a grocer: "Nothing's upset me all week. It's been mighty peaceful...
...list of possible causes. Dr. Lowell A. Erf, of Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, named as possible villains to be watched: radiation (from cosmic rays, X rays), chemical changes within the body's blood-making cells, chemicals outside the body (industrial wastes, gasoline fumes), the emotions (which upset the body's metabolism), and viruses. Dr. Erf had a suggestion for research: since leukemia victims have improved after having virus diseases, give them a mild strain of virus diseases like chickenpox...
...Ulen's men are determined to upset Michael's prediction. Joe Fox, Bill MacVicar, and Mort Hull will be out to stop McIntyre in the 100, and Chuck Hoelzer and Larry Ward will face Bruch in the breast stroke. The meet may ride on their shoulders...