Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compulsory Spinach. Says Lyttleton of the Latin-or-Greek requirement, which he hopes to upset at the next meeting of the Cambridge Senate: "It's ridiculous. It reminds me of the Victorian dictum, 'It doesn't matter what you teach a boy, as long as he doesn't like it.' " As a boy, Lyttleton did not like Latin, flunked his Cambridge entrance exam the first time, barely squeaked into the university on his second...
There are the malcontents, who would flock tc anything new; some are malcontents for the "right reasons," others are upset over the wrong things. "We try to keep away from this latter group completely," Bullitt says. "Most of all we want active students who want something from the House and who are willing to put a lot in in return...
...varsity must be considered the favorite in tonight's contest, but if the Crimson experiences a let-down after three "big" games, an upset could be in the making...
...chronicling the Kramer hassle, it turned loose all its superlatives on a lanky kid of 18 that Kramer has been grooming for the Cup matches. Brought along chiefly for experience, Earl ("Butch") Buchholz Jr. took hold under Kramer's tutelage, put some power into his scrambling game, upset both Anderson and the U.S.'s Alex Olmedo in the New South Wales championships, and went to the finals before losing to Cooper. Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "A tennis prodigy." Headlined the Melbourne Sun News-Pictorial: THIS U.S. BOY COULD TAKE DAVIS CUP FROM US. But in the Victoria...
...Parseghian, Miami '49, transformed Northwestern, the 1957 door mat of the Big Ten, into a spirited team that upset Michigan, Minnesota and Ohio State, threw scares into Iowa and Wisconsin...