Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, Rose ducked the swarms of newsmen who hounded her at home and at the candy counter where she works. But her older brother told reporters: "I don't want to speak out of turn, but I'll admit that my sister is upset. I can't imagine her taking him back now. I was in the other war and I know something about these things...
...forthcoming super-colossus. And when Army and Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games. But the miracle that would have made it live up to the advance billing was AWOL. So was the upset that incurable hopefuls had held their breath for. When it was over, Army was still the best in the land and Navy was runner...
...period income on which excess profits taxes are computed (either invested capital or "average" earnings) has been unfairly set. Under 722 the Bureau will consider readjusting the base for the "average" period, 1936-39, only if earnings were subnormal because of: 1) flood, fire, etc.; 2) a temporary economic upset such as war-caused material shortages; 3) an unusual profit cycle for the corporation, differing materially from the regular business cycle; 4) changes in products, capacity, etc., which are not reflected in the base earnings...
...Upset. Perhaps the Senate's biggest upset was the defeat of Pennsylvania's gladhanding, snow-crested "Puddler Jim" Davis, 71, member of the Moose, Secretary of Labor under Herbert Hoover and a fixture on the public payroll since 1921. His successor, who rode the Roosevelt wind across Pennsylvania, is an all but unknown Philadelphia Democrat, 200-lb. Francis J. Myers, 42, who has served three plodding terms in the House...
Audiences were almost never alert to such real crises, but on the other hand were upset by trifles: their most violent reaction (lasting an entire act) was to an actor's inadvertently addressing a commissioned officer as a noncom. Audiences in general, Newman decided, have an "average mental age" of between...