Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strength of their recent class elections, Dartmouth at least can upset the popular notion that a berth on a major team is the only way to popularity and recognition in college...
Theodore Roosevelt began Conservation in 1907 by withdrawing 16,000,000 acres of forest land from commercial exploitation. William Howard Taft in 1909 withdrew 7,000,000 acres of oil-bearing land. In 1920 Congress passed an oil-leasing act which upset the Roosevelt-Taft policy by permitting the Secretary of the Interior to allow oil prospecting, to grant oil leases. This act spawned the oil corruption of the Harding administration. Now, in the acreage it affects, the Hoover order far outdoes Roosevelt and Taft orders combined...
...pound class Crispin Cooke '32 upset predictions by conquering C. G. Chase '30 of the University team after a long gruelling struggle which went into two overtime periods. A. W. Kelsey 3G, and W. A. Robinson '31 put up an exciting match, and the latter's fine defense amounted to more than Kelsey's victory would indicate. The best bout of the evening was between P. N. Vonckx '31 and Nathaniel Warner '30 Vonckx, with a bad wrist, was forced to default after about six minutes, after a splendid exhibition of game wrestling, Coach Lewis refereed...
...province of the experts [of the Second Dawes Committee] to do so. They are trying simply to find a solution for the political aspect and part of the financial one. "They are all aware every moment that the economic aspect may any day within the next 60 years upset all their calculations...
...beauty of Saturday's three-cornered competition is that the slightest flick of an elbow may upset the plans of any of the coaches. Cornell always comes to town as an unknown quantity; Dartmouth possesses potential power, but can't quite duplicate its Hanover performances on a foreign surface. It is easier to keep track of the form of Harvard's athletes than it is to follow the ups and downs of the boys who strive so diligently under Harry Hillman and Jack Moakley, and that's why the meet promises to have a stronger Crimson tinge than the "dope...