Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that it would be in the public interest to deal with this important question outside party atmosphere and by agreement so that a decision of one Government might not be upset by another...
...Ingraham '31, ranked third on the second University squash team, defeated R. A. Powers, of the Tennis and Racquet Club, who is seeded fourth in the State Squash Racquets tournament, in a startling upset last night. Ingraham, the first man to reach the fifth round, fought his way to victory over Powers in a match that lasted for nearly two hours. Although the score was 10-15, 15-9, 15-9, 15-18, 15-7, every point was bitterly contested...
...great social changes of the later eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to profound political transformations. The industrial revolution radically upset the economic system and established industrial and commercial capital side by side with wealth in land. This in turn involved the decline of the old feudal aristocracy and the rise of a middle class. It was but natural that this natural class, as it became influential should desire some voice in the affairs of government. In time it evolved a political theory known as liberalism and based on the principles of individualism, liberty and free competition. In the countries...
...takes a wide & patient survey, such as the American Student Health Association reported last week, to upset a general misconception?namely that smart college students are not as healthy as their husky confreres. They are, and more so, in the life...
...John Daniel Hertz was ready to make the taxicab an industry and to upset all previous methods. He had engineers design a small, tough cab. of low upkeep cost. He manufactured dozens, hundreds of them. He painted them an eye-arresting yellow-orange. He announced rates that knocked the public's eye out- 30? for the first mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well...