Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pool this evening at 8:45 o'clock at the expense of the Brown Bears. Coach Leo Barry's squad should afford the Ulenmen their stiffest test of the year, but nevertheless the visitors are below par this season and have little hope of repeating their 38 to 37 upset victory of two years...
...predecessors, its sustained excitement is agonizing. Those who saw The Lady Vanishes will be pleased to rediscover the two cricket-playing English gentlemen of that film (Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne), who interrupt the plot's progress at the tensest moments to discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with the Government hogging all the decent metal...
...recent poll conducted by the Daily Pennsylvanian, 51% of those voting selected the 10 to 10 football tie with Harvard as the biggest upset of the year at Penn. In second place was the Penn victory over Cornell with 38% of the votes...
...when-when Hitler found his forces unable to undertake a direct assault last summer on Britain herself. The explanation has never been completely given, but it included as its chief ingredients the ability of the R. A. F. to inflict devastating punishment on German daylight bomb ers and to upset German preparations for invasion across the Channel...
...details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...