Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Providing a startling upset, Robert W. Sides '38 advanced to the quarter-finals of the golf tournament by deposing Robert C. Hunter '36 one up. Hunter, who is captain of the team, was seeded number one in the tourney...
Even so, there still seem to be at least 50 people at Harvard who think that the Crimson can upset its heavily favored rival--those 50 being the players and coaches on the Varsity squad. At the final meeting of the squad last night Coach Harlow closed his speech by saying that if there was any man in the room who felt that Harvard was certain to be licked, he, Harlow, would like to have that man leave
...this year. When the December harvest is done Australia will probably have relatively little grain for export, and most of that will go to the Far East. Despite rosy reports on its crop, Russian exports are expected to be light (see p. 19). But the most sudden and surprising upset in the world's wheat trade occurred in Argentina, where drought and locusts cut the prospective harvest nearly 50%. In good Latin American tradition the crop was officially overestimated early in the season, causing no end of embarrassment to Buenos Aires exporting firms which sold for future delivery more grain...
...will bid for it? That question kept Wall Street buzzing last week. The Morgan banking group made it clear that they would do no more than place bids amounting to upset prices. Old bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, who two years ago stepped out at 74 to buy a 10% interest in New York Central for his rich little Delaware & Hudson, was spotlighted as a likely bidder. Another suggestion was Frederick Henry Prince, crusty septuagenarian Boston banker who jumped into Armour & Co. a year ago. While either Loree or Prince could undoubtedly lay hands on enough cash, neither...
...country's gold supply. His confidential secretary took bribes from the Whiskey Ring. Even though he was not directly involved in the Credit Mobilier exposure, it placed him under popular suspicion. "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant," Henry Adams wrote, "was alone enough to upset Darwin." Corruption, bribery and precedence given measures for party expediency characterized his administrations, which were historically important in a negative sense, in that they gave a powerful impetus to reform, bred a widespread cynicism for democratic government, effectively discouraged able and conscientious men from seeking political careers...