Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...
...Robinson Crusoe's Man Friday had left him, gone adventuring on his own, it would have upset 18th Century literature no more than jazzdom was upset last week when Ferde Grofe stepped forth in Manhattan as a conductor. For 13 years Ferde Grofe was Paul Whiteman's right-hand man. He made all the symphonicky arrangements which earned the Whiteman orchestra its serious regard. Expensive radio stars had a hand in last week's concert : enormous Vaughn De Leath, announced as the first voice to go on the air; fat Morton Downey who looked foolish singing "Kiss...
...University Seconds for their part upset an unknown team from Worcester Academy. Nathaniel Ware '34 proved to be the stellar performer for Harvard by pushing the puck in for two goals. The summaries: FRESHMEN ANDOVER Bacon, Baxter, l.f., r.f., Fawcolt, Cushman Lincoin, Cort, Saltonstall, Hollis, r.f., l.f., Summers, Knowles, Bartlett Holmes, Pruyn, Gleason, c., c., Coole, Badere Walts, Mendelson, l.d., r.d., O'Neil, Widdecombe Pruyn, Dow, r.d., l.d., Gardner, Clapp Reece, Morrison, g., g., Bartow...
...pole vault event supplied the single upset of the day, with H. S. Parker '35, a Freshman with no previous record of athletic Powers at Harvard, making full use of his three and a quarter feet handicap to carry off the first place with a nine foot leap. J. S. Woodberry '35, jumping from scratch, annexed second place with a twelve foot vault. Neither Oscar Sutermeister '32, nor G. F. Bennett '32 entered the meet, in which they were expected to figure with some success. The best time of the afternoon came when N. P. Hallowell '32, Veteran Crimson distance...
...that he is sleepy. Bye & bye he falls asleep. In that sleep he will, like Trilby, do many of the things the hypnotist tells him to do. Sometimes the strain of a subject's attempts to obey the hypnotist are so psychically awesome, so physically real, as to upset the strongest observer. After he wakes a person may carry out hypnotic orders. But, experts generally agree, no one under hypnotic commands will do anything contrary to his physical abilities or against the grain of his character...