Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eagles is last year's New England Intercollegiate champion, and presents the strongest threat to the team's hopes for victory. But Bill Rickenbacker, number one man on the Crimson squad, was only one stroke behind him in the nine holes played in the uncompleted match, and may well upset him this afternoon...
...final returns added up to a thumping, upset victory. In a state where General Douglas MacArthur was loudly ballyhooed as a dazzling favorite son, where Tom Dewey had twice before swept the field, Stassen had picked up 19 of Wisconsin's convention delegates, cut MacArthur off with eight, frozen Tom Dewey out altogether. Crowed a jubilant Stassenite: "The prairies are on fire and getting hotter for Stassen all the time...
...Grenell has not figured out the basic cause of the dramatic variations; he thinks that there must be some sort of metabolic upset in the brain cells of schizophrenic patients. Last week he was experimenting with his little black box to find out if age, sex, pregnancy or serious illness can affect his readings...
Here's what one leading New York football columnist saw last week: "Harvard should stage a strong comeback ... the Johnnies figure to blast Yale and perhaps upset Princeton... Jim Kenary, a needle-point passer, will be cast for the role of Chappuis in Art Valpey's version of the Michigan offense. .. Hal Moffie, Harvard's seatback, can ontrun anybody on the Yale squad... Chip Gannon is due for a big year at Cambridge. .. Bob DlBiasio is the lad Yard birds tout as a 'second Mahan'... Tom Guthrie will be eligible next fall...
This odd truce is upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...