Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoker was chosen this year to fete the team, instead of a banquet, such as was given by the club in 1929. Harvard alumni had planned to stage a magnificent celebration in 1931, but their predictions were upset by a 3-0 defeat...
...legal tangle that University Hall fears, then let it look to the law, and discover that there is nothing in it to prohibit the sort of thing in question. If, as is very likely, University Hall is clinging to tradition in the fear that dining hall decorum will be upset by the entrance of liquor, and in the fear that the name of Harvard University will thereby gather no grace, let it consider these ancient, yet nonetheless staring facts...
Harvard alumni had dreams of staging a magnificent affair in 1931, but pre-game calculations were upset, as the Crimson went down to a 3 to 0 defeat. The 1932 season also afforded the alumni little chance to celebrate...
...hard money men was getting organized. Day after the ceremony in the Oval Room of the White House, the directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce solemnly adopted a resolution urging a speedy return to a dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them." He admitted that...
...first Inventor Armstrong hoped to finance his scheme with private capital. The du Fonts, for whom he used to work as a consulting engineer, helped him in his early researches. He expected substantial backing also from General Motors until Depression upset his plans. Last March he organized Seadrome Ocean Dock Corp., with himself as president and majority stockholder. His backers include GM's Board Chairman Lammot du Pont and President John Howard...