Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keynote: "I hope that the trade depression which upset our calculations last year will have reached its limit and better times are in store, but it will take some time after the tide has definitely turned, before revenue will meet expenditure...
Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...
...York harbor and back. Fear of U. S. law forced a change in its plans, caused the cruise ships to put in briefly at Halifax to establish a foreign contact and technically break the voyage's continuity. Last week the American Steamship Owners Association was vastly upset by a widely advertised project of the Cunard Line to send its biggest and best boats (Berengaria, Aquitania, Mauretania) out of New York and back to the same port for regular week-end (Friday-to-Tuesday) Atlantic cruises-to-nowhere this summer at a minimum $50 rate...
...artificial quotation of the peseta but to maintain control of the market and avoid fluctuations. . . . Nothing was decided regarding the rate at which stabilization will be effected. . . . On fixing the limit, which Parliament will have to approve, it will have to be arranged that there will be no upset in individual or collective fortunes...
...program's biggest upset came when Hines defeated R. E. Torres 2G. Torres was defending champion in the 160-pound class and slated to win the title again this year, but the hard-hitting freshman got the decision after three rounds of fighting. In the next best bout D. D. Carrick successfully defended his title in the unlimited class against the assault of J. F. Schlafly 1L. The contest, while well-fought, was rather slow, and the fighters did not show the form which was expected of them...