Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hottest front was Annapolis' Dahlgren Hall, where West Point's once-beaten basketball team (upset by Pennsylvania) had it out with once-beaten Navy (who lost only to Bainbridge Naval Training Station). Both teams suffered first-half jitters; both succeeded with the same basic tactics-keep the No. 1 scorers, Army's flashy Dale Hall and Navy's nimble Adrian Back, out of range...
Julian West, 30, was intense, nervous, troubled with insomnia. In the old West mansion in Boston, he built a soundproof subterranean sleeping chamber, hired a mesmerist to put him to sleep. On the night of May 30, 1887 he was particularly upset. Strikes in the building trades had stopped work on his new house, delaying his marriage to lovely Edith Bartlett. At 9 p.m. Julian went to his quiet room and was put into a trance calculated to last until 9 the next morning...
...civilians could feel pretty certain last week that no labor draft was going to upset their lives. The Senate Military Affairs Committee,* after listening to the protests of such varied antidraft groups as the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., railway labor, the National Farmers Union, the National Grange, etc., had smothered the makeshift May-Bailey bill, which might have done...
Runners-Up. Few, if any, of the nation's hundreds of college basketball teams can challenge Army and Navy's top ranking. One of the few, Manhattan's St. John's (won 14, lost 1), might even upset the applecart at West Point this week. Three other top teams put an extra sheen of gilt on their records last week: ¶ DePaul's 6-ft.-9 Center George Mikan took the scoring honors over Oklahoma A. & M.'s 7-ft. Bob Kurland (TIME, Dec. 25), as DePaul hung up its 15th victory...
...Army swimmers last week scored a major upset, marring Yale's 66-meet winning streak...