Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade ago the mere announcement of such a step would have upset Japanese industrialists. Today they have more confidence in their power to meet competition...
...place. Scheu and Alf Hallowell will capture second and third in the 1600 and Bob Playfair looks a sure go in the 3200. The dashes will be divided between Hayes and Dunbar. The resulting computations make the score break even, but it is easy to see that a single upset will turn the tide. For instance in the informal time trials yesterday afternoon, an excellent showing was made...
...board of nine, three appointed by the President and six elected annually by the States, will have power to regulate prices, determine costs and forbid the expansion of prison industries that might upset competing businesses...
Weak-eyed Aldous Huxley, no such graphic reporter as Dos Passos, travels always with book in hand, but never a Baedeker. With a better seat in a library than on a horse, he is a hard man to upset in his own style of country. The physical peregrinations described in Beyond The Mexique Bay took him through Central America and Mexico, but many a peak in Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive...
...good a narrator and too modest a person to make herself the heroine of her story. The other members of her family circle and many a kindly-remembered friend bulk quite as large in her story. Pastor Unger always came to call when the house was upset, and made confusion worse confounded without annoying anybody. When the parish he had always pined for fell vacant he refused to apply, because he thought another man should have the post, but he gave himself the satisfaction of nearly applying. He appeared at the registrar's office and at the last legal...