Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Military Affairs' next to senior member, Elbert Duncan Thomas of Utah, who Is an all-out-aid-to-Britain man and an industrious student of military needs. But the rule of seniority is dear to the Senate: historians could count only two contemporary occasions when it has been upset. Now the Senators could not bring themselves to break the rule again...
...race record, the Varsity crews of Princeton, Syracuse, and Cornell will join forces tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o'clock in the hopes that one of them will cover the mile and three-quarters course faster than Captain Sherm Gray's eight. The chances of the Crimson's being upset seem almost negligible, and the rangy Varsity seems headed for its first undefeated sprint season since Spike Chace captained...
Aiming to duplicate Burgy Ayres 7 to 3 upset over a strong North-eastern squad last year, Sophomore Bud Waldstein will go to the mound for the Stahlmen when they meet the Huskies on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...scholar at Oxford, "with a thrill of alarm" hailed it as "a dangerous book." Said he: "Frazer tends to destroy [Christianity] by merely showing how old it is. ... The most mystical Christian doctrines . . . appear as commonplaces of savage superstition, sometimes revolting, sometimes in their way sublime. ..." Others were less upset. Wrote John Peale Bishop of The Golden Bough: "By extending [Christianity's] existence into the dark backward and abyss of time, it has gained not only the respectability of age, but another authenticity...
Penn, placing second in last year's Heps, is generally favored to upset the then victorious Yale tomorrow. Although the Quakers have a very spotty record to date eking out a two-point win over Princeton in a quadrangular meet, whipping Cornell, and dropping their Yale meet 73-62, Penn has a formidable list of outstanding first place winners. But comparative scores do little but confuse the conscientious dopester as Penn beat Princeton this year, Princeton licked Yale, and Yale turned around and shellacked Penn...