Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock in the morning Sidney Freeman had traded without a break for 24 hours, had paid out some $300,000 for 73 tickets and upset the pound-dollar exchange rate...
...miles, due to ground interference. Very rarely do short waves reflect from the Heaviside Layer. When it was recently found that the station in West Hartford, more than eighty miles away from Boston and across a mountain range, could get signals through, all previous theories concerning short waves were upset. The new station here has been established to carry out further experiments into the nature of short waves...
Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
Bookmakers in Manhattan reported that $100,000 had been wagered on Fordham v. St. Mary's. Beaten by Nevada in last fortnight's most surprising upset, St. Mary's started off badly when Fordham's Maniaci intercepted a pass, made a mad 80-yd. dash for a touchdown in the first quarter. Harry ("The Horse'') Mattos tied the score with a touchdown in the next quarter, threw a pass to Erdelatz for another in the last. St. Mary's 14, Fordham...
Toward restoring the delicate European balance of power upset by Hitler's ascendancy, M. Barthou's old hand worked surely, swiftly. Most spectacularly, he made friends with Soviet Russia, drew Russia into the League. He had also helped Stanley Baldwin to decide that Britain's frontier must be on the Rhine. In a brilliant swing around Europe he had kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced...