Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheering last week for the expected victory of the Stalin regime at the polls was Premier Prince Konoye of Japan. "If the results of the Russian election support the regime, trouble will not occur," beamed the Prince. "But if Stalin is upset it is impossible to say what may happen." Despite constant Soviet & Communist press uproar against "Fascist Japan," the Prince seemed confident that such help as thrifty Stalin gives China will be as inadequate as that he has given the Spanish Leftists. Soviet bombers arrived in China in considerable numbers and went into action last week...
Because of its 13-6 upset victory over Yale, the Crimson football team was yesterday afternoon awarded the Grantland Rice Huskies Trophy...
...Carolina last week, Duke led, 6-to-0. In the second period something went wrong; North Carolina's Crowell Little went through right tackle for a touchdown and Tom Burnette kicked the extra point. In the final three minutes North Carolina scored a superfluous touchdown to underline the upset-of-the-week: North Carolina 14, Duke...
Those who figure that an author's abilities should at least keep pace with his public's have had their calculations upset by Author Masters' post-Spoon River performances. Thirty-two generally humdrum volumes of prose and verse have poured from his pen into the literary ocean, and have disappeared with faint gurgles barely audible to the public at large. But the sense of Poet Masters' potential ability lingers on; and to a loyal band of U. S. readers every new Masters book comes bound in hope as well as boards...
Twice a stray dog made its appearance on the field, once stopping the play. But everything seemed to have its redeeming features on Saturday, even the snow which might have been rain. This dog was a Dalmation, and what more aristocratic breed of dog could be desired to upset the Harvard-Yale classic...