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Word: upsettingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best guess as to what had upset Senator Johnson's newly acquired composure was an observation anent Captain Ingersoll's trip by New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock to the effect that he was "expertly informed that, should it at any time serve the interests of the two great democracies, their Navies would automatically complement each other in the Pacific." Added Columnist Krock: "This is the kind of understanding that is hardly more than a wink or a nod, the sort of thing not Mr. Johnson or anyone else can extract from men's inner minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Probe Continued | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Although for a number of years people have been waiting for the storm of skiing to blow itself out, that sport has upset the dope by becoming more and more popular despite every trick of the weather. New with the announcement that Norwood Cox will give expert instruction over the coming weekends to anyone at Harvard who joins the squad, skiing is already showing sings of struggling to its feet as a recognized Harvard sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKI CHASE | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

...Leary's cow kicked over an oil lantern, thus starting the fire, seems to be of dubious historical accuracy. Nevertheless, Twentieth Century-Fox is privileged to rewrite history in the interests of drama, and drama it surely is which the film provides once the fateful lantern is upset. Streets are mobbed with frantic people; flames roar through the tightly-packed slums, ignite a gas tower, stampede the stock yards, and drive the whole South side into the Chicago River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/16/1938 | See Source »

...which several national records were shattered Since the construction of the Indoor Athletic Building eight years ago, undergraduate interest has kept pace with the team's steady improvement. Close to capacity crowds attend all league meets, and last March seats could have been sold twice over for the Yale upset...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: II | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, although himself the son of a petty Austrian frontier official and although he once earned his living as a decorator's assistant, was profoundly upset by the reproof last week of General von Fritsch et al.-for clearly they were facing the Dictator with the fact that he had been the chief accomplice in uniting a German Field Marshal with the daughter of a masseuse. According to best-posted Berlin sources, the canny German generals used what they thought was their advantage over the crestfallen Fiihrer-who maintained that he had been "duped" by Bridegroom von Blomberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Purge No. 2 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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