Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard and Yale ended their respective and respectable track season on Saturday in a blaze of mixed glory, by defeating a redoubtable Oxford and Cambridge outfit. So meagre was the American margin of victory that the sum of the meet was in the nature of an upset, an upset for the expectation of the press which backed the home team to win things easily on Soldier's Field. For it was only in the last two events that the strong English invasion was turned back, and a deadlock achieved in the number of first places scored, six for each side...
...meet championship; and Warner of Yale was strong as ever in the quarter-mile run, nosing out Captain N. P. Dodge '33. The only old record which held really aloof from the meet was the Broad Jump of 1921, 25 feet, 3 inches. W. L. Hasler '34 scored an upset when he won this event, though, and his victory in this by bringing a tie with Oxford for the number of first places, really gave the meet to the Americans
...House had reached a compromise on pensions (TIME, June 19). Pension cuts were to be limited to 25%. "Presumptive" disability cases, in which a veteran claimed his post-War injuries were due to military service, were to be reviewed by the President. In the Senate long windy efforts to upset this compromise were finally voted down 45-to-36. President Roosevelt was master of Congress until...
...Southern California, whose pole-vaulting won the intercollegiate championship for his team in 1931, was unexpectedly tied by Matthew Gordy of Louisiana State, at 14 ft. The tie gave Louisiana State the points it needed to win the meet, with a seven-man squad, in the most surprising upset of the season, 58 points to Southern California's 54. Competing in the 29th Annual Interscholastic championships at Soldier Field the same day, Jesse Owens, Negro star of Cleveland's East Technical High school, tied the world's record in the 100-yd. dash; broke the interscholastic record...
...diary. "I also bought Legouis and Cazamian's Histoire de la Litterature Anglaise, chiefly in order to read the pages on myself." Though he knew it was a weakness, he was often attracted to patent medicines. Once he took six boxes of anti-fat pills, which upset his heart. His doctor mildly rebuked him, said "that I oughtn't to take medicines without con-suiting him. And of course he is quite right. It is perfectly staggering the idiotic things even a wise man will do." Though Bennett wrote for money and made a good income (as high...