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Word: upsets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Winthrop and Leverett won their opening games, the Puritans defeating Dudley 18 to 0 last Friday, and the Bunnies downing Lowell 8 to 0. Eliot lost its opener to Kirkland 6 to 0 last Thursday. The first upset of the year occurred when Dunster, the traditional cellar team, held the Gold Coasters to a scoreless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP TO ENGAGE ELIOT | 10/20/1942 | See Source »

...Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round One for the new Romantic Movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sublime Child | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Gene Sauds, Freshman champion and number three man last season, was on his way to a possible upset yesterday when he took the first set, 6-3, from number one-seeded Bob Freedman in a second round match of the University Tennis Tourney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROKEN RACQUET HALTS TENNIS MATCH IN DRAW | 10/15/1942 | See Source »

...squad faces Dummer with the hope of providing another upset win for which Freshman elevens are noted. Goalie Bob Frye will lead the home defense while wing Bill Guild will pace the offense that Coach Macdonald has planned for the Lee, Mass. aggregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BOOTERS OPEN IN GOVERNOR DUMMER CONTEST | 10/14/1942 | See Source »

...This upset the whole works. Sister No. 1 turned nasty, soon the mayor and the D.A. and the police were out to get Ben. So when Sol Caspar came back one day and Ben and Sister No. 2 fixed him for keeps, they had no influential friends to help them out. Only Sister No. 1 relented enough to weep with Sister No. 2 when her Ben expired of "lead poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wonderful Pulp | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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