Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...numerous touchdown passes. It must be remembered, however, that the game found the varsity at its lowest physical peak of the year as most of the starting line along with half the backfield was out with various injuries. The Crimson had expended most of its resources in its near upset of a vastly superior Princeton eleven and had nothing left for the Yale game. The varsity's new coach John Yovicsin, while he did not have the most auspicious season, proved himself as an able coach, when he had the material. Next year should see somewhat of an improvement...
...marry Wat to Chan, then 28. The ceremony was duly carried out: the bride wore red, and Wat was represented, said Yip, by a rooster. No one ever told Wat about the wedding, said Yip, "because the whole family depended on him, and I didn't want to upset him with the news...
...field of science and education, the University cannot risk being out-shone by the Nobel Prize Committee and will therefore grant a degree to Chen Ning Yang, present Loeb Lecturer in Physics here and one of the young Columbia professors who upset the Law of Parity last fall...
...concession in the Persian Gulf off the neutral zone by contracting to pay 56% of the production profits to the zone's owners, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The deal came just a few days after Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) became the first major U.S. company to upset the fifty-fifty pattern. For a 6,177-sq.-mi. concession off Iran's shores in the gulf. Indiana Standard agreed to pay 75% of profits to Iran, plus a $25 million bonus, and to spend $82 million in exploration and development over the next twelve years...
...singles, which Junta had won the last two years, only one varsity player, Fred Vinton, reached the semifinals. The unseeded sophomore, however, lost in that round to Yale's Tom Treiberg, who had earlier upset Junta...