Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quebec Court of Sessions by Judge Laetare Roy that the authorities were "flagrantly failing in their duty" to stamp out Vice. After reading this the French-Canadian students sallied forth one night last week, broke into eight houses of prostitution in succession, whacked naked inmates upon the buttocks, upset beds and tore up bedding, ripped lighting fixtures from the walls and otherwise proved their collegiate Virtue...
...British diplomats point out that while they are pleased with improvement in recent Anglo-Turkish relations they can see no tangible topics for negotiation with Turkey presently. Likewise they regard the idea of preparing a new Mediterranean Pact now as most inopportune. . . . A simple invitation by King Edward has upset the British Foreign Office...
Bernard DeVoto should do things with it. He is a man who loves an upset. When he edited the Harvard Graduates' Magazine he offended so many old grads so indiscriminately that they demanded his resignation. But when he quit the number of cancelled subscriptions spelled death for the Magazine. He has been treating the readers of the S. R. L. for two or three years now, to excellent although infrequent reviews of headline books. As editor there are possibilities before him which may make the Saturday Review a critical organ without parallel in this country...
...develop into the most exciting player of her sex since Suzanne Lenglen. She was blonde Alice Marble, 23-year-old San Franciscan who by beating Helen Jacobs 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the U. S. Women's Singles Championship accomplished the major tennis upset of the year...
...consider, first, the situation, created when the proper balance is upset by disproportionate concern with general education. In this case the stream of learning and research inevitably dries up; indeed, some have contended that it should. Newman defined his idea of a university as "a place of teaching universal knowledge, for the diffusion and extension of knowledge rather than the advancement." In his famous essay be recommended "a division of intellectual labour between learned academies and universities." (In twentieth century terminology we should substitute the words "research institute" for "academy".) He believed that "to discover and to teach...