Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard suffered an upset last Saturday in the finals of the Boston Indoor League Trophy tournament, when the 110th Cavalry team, lead by the versatile Forester Clark '29, overcame the Crimson aggregation, handicap and all, and annexed the Trophy Cup. But Coach F. D. Sharp's first line of horsemen have at times displayed stickwork, passing, and riding little short of brilliant in the last few games, and have overpowered several strong regimental trios...
...blades flew off. Always the answer is: "They don't fly off." Hence, if a 'giro had flown through the window of his Philadelphia office and knocked him from his chair, Vice President Geoffry S. Childs of Autogiro Co. of America could not have been more violently upset than he was by what he read in the Philadelphia Inquirer one day last week: a story stating that a Navy 'giro had cracked up at Quantico, Va. because a rotor blade had carried away...
...University team is the same as the one which scored an upset over the Springfield College matmen on Saturday, with the exception of O. E. Goddard '33, who is now black in the lineup as regular 155-pounder, instead of H. G. Brown '32, his substitute. The Freshman team remains exactly the same, and hopes to repeat the surprise it gave its last opponents, the Springfield yearlings. The first-year men overwhelmed the invaders from western Massachusetts with a 31 to 5 score...
...things might upset these calculations: a great business revival in 1932; or developments within the industry itself so compelling that present owners might be excited to the pitch of buying new cars instead of hoarding their money or worrying about their banked savings. It was just possible that the public might replace its doddering pieces of locomotion with new models on a grand scale...
...tells more of robbery and intrigue than of murder; you feel Author Fletcher granted a corpse only out of deference to his readers' taste. When a well-to-do English clergyman discovered that his church had been robbed of some priceless 15th Century church vessels he was naturally upset; when the detectives he sent for found a dead man in the squire's pew he was struck all of a heap. The murderer was tracked and some of the treasure recaptured in a few days, but before the whole truth came out Canon Effingham had a great many Disturbingly...