Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hammered out of aristocratic Air Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister the admission that British firms are now selling aircraft engines to Germany to power the battle planes with which Realmleader Hitler has so upset the British public...
...upset by all this was Maclean's famed Saturday Evening Post of Canada, that its editorial on the Glorious First (Queen Victoria established the Dominion on July 1, 1867) was devoted not to the usual fanfare of Canadians pointing with pride to Canada but to a full page of viewing with alarm these and other Canadian troubles. Cried Maclean...
...than ever before -more than 25,000 every afternoon- watched the matches. They saw Borotra indicate that he might not have been of much use to France's Davis Cup team in any case by losing, after five hard sets, to Czechoslovakian Roderick Menzel. In the most startling upset of the week, Wilmer Allison lost to Australia's unorthodox Vivian McGrath in the first round. After seven days of play, the only U. S. player left in the men's singles was red-haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. Experts agreed that England's Fred Perry...
...down. His second speech in two years was completed. Majority Leader Robinson and two dozen other Senators made their way back to his desk, crowded around him, pumped his hand, almost upset his spittoon in their excited congratulations...
...Constitution. And the excess of leaders resulting from the coalition of two factions would be quietly taken care of by appointments to the Supreme Court. But last week as Señor Quezon was within a few days sailing distance of home, it appeared that anything might happen to upset his well-laid plans...