Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginians. Tall, sturdy, slow-but-sure North Chinamen despise and are despised by South Chinamen, small, nimble, slick. Last week China resumed on a grand scale her civil war between North and South. It has been dragging on, in one form or another, ever since the Dragon Throne was upset by the revolution of 1911. Observers noted that this time the battle is between forces headed by the four best men of North, and South...
Four costly errors by the Harvard Freshmen enabled the Worcester Academy nine to score a 6 to 4 win yesterday afternoon on the schoolboy diamond. Although the first year men collected seven hits to their opponents' five, the blows were scattered and failed to upset the schoolboys' tight playing...
...between Moscow and New York. Mr. Whalen handed out to newspapers a set of letters obtained by his undercover men, one typed on the stationery of Amtorg, others with Moscow letterheads. Impartial observers wondered if here was another "Zinoviev Letter," like that which rocked British politics in 1924 and upset the first MacDonald Cabinet after it had recognized the Soviet Government. Crudely phrased, prolix, roundabout, the letters arrive awkwardly at these points: 1) One "Feodor" of Moscow writes to one "G. Grafpen," ordering him to go to "Seattle in the State of Washington," conferring on him a "mandate" respecting "illegal...
...defeat of the administration candidate. Those whose imaginations are more eloquent than their wisdom loss off their inhibitions and express the conviction that the present case is just another example of the insidious action of the dread hand of socialism or some other unmentionable force working to upset the present political organization of the country...
Interesting will be comments on this revolutionary theory which will doubtless come from Albert Einstein. The Lewis theory, if accepted, will upset Einstein's principle of relativity which is based on an active past pushing events into a passive future, takes no account of a reversal of the process...