Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Funsters pulled the upset of the House season when they overpowered the Gold Coasters, who displayed carelessness and lack of spirit. Although at times last year's champions showed flashes of 1940 form, they were thrown back by an inspired defense...
Although earlier in the week, the Deacons were given the nod over the Bunnies, Al Mathis, star back from Kirkland, has since been injured, and the odds are upset again. However, few Hutchers have shown up for practice, and, in spite of the backfield that looks powerful on paper, the line is as yet untried. So it looks like a toss-up from here...
...idea of making business give up all abnormal profits till war's end makes arguable sense in a national emergency.* Britain already has such a law. But the bill which Secretary Morgenthau now has his Treasury experts drawing for presentation to Congress is something that will upset the principles which make the U.S. economic system work...
...guilty, and when Jerry got out of jail, offered to set him up in business in another town. Jerry insisted on coming back to prove "he could be as good a citizen as any of them." Father set Jerry up as a butcher. When Jerry died, "Father, too upset to eat, served the rest of us and then sat looking at his empty plate." "Well, Jerry is gone, and I've lost a friend," he said finally. "A friend that I was proud of. ... I don't know who Jerry was or where he came from...
...their House. The new system, by eliminating a huge bookkeeping overhead, removes one of the principal objections to eating around. Fears have been expressed, however, that without the present minimum, certain Houses would be overcrowded. Well, that depends on whether any House has a special attraction which would upset the law of averages. To our unjaundiced eye it doesn't appear that there is any such bias. It is greatly to be hoped that House masters and House committees will take the lid off, temporarily and experimentally at least...