Word: upsettingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalls that day when a woman upset the staid order of affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie National made a whirlwind campaign to woe the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet-swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid modern prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls...
King George opened the First Conference with elegant pomp in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Mahatma Gandhi was not present. To everyone's amazement it was India's bejeweled Princes and Maharajas who upset the show by upsetting Great Britain's major premise, namely that the Indian rulers would be unwilling to merge their states into an Indian Federation. One after another Their Highnesses arose in dazzling splendor to say that they were willing...
...seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod or to grovel before a horrid head of St. John the Baptist. Once, 25 years ago, it attempted to give Salome and Dr. William Stephen Rainsford, the late Mr. Morgan's spiritual adviser,? was so upset that a directors' meeting was called, the opera withdrawn from the repertoire because it was "objectionable and detrimental to the best interests of the Metropolitan...
With the whole Fatherland convinced that last week's Reichstag election could produce no Government upset, Germans voted almost without violence for the first time in years, with these striking results...
Pennsylvania, a doubtful state, was tending to Roosevelt. South Dakota was close. Texas in early returns gave Roosevelt almost four to one on Hoover. South Carolina was maintaining its status as a Democratic stronghold giving Roosevelt an almost incredible plurality. West Virginia early returns indicated a possible upset in giving Hoover about two to one from a few scattered districts...