Word: upset
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...heavily favored Dartmouth hoop team will engage the Crimson Varsity fresh from its upset victory over Tufts last Saturday in the indoor Athletic Building tonight. This game in the first home contest in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the Crimson who have split their other two League games...
Jittery and wrathful appeared the white-thatched leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Conservative Robert J. Manion, M.D., whose Irish tongue is as sharp as his surgical knives. Doctor Manion was upset because for several days he had tried in vain to get an advance peep at the Speech-from-the-Throne which Lord Tweedsmuir was to read. Ordinarily the Leader of the Opposition is allowed the courtesy of a peek. This time the Speech had been kept secret by order of its author, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. That astute and genial fat man obviously...
...Gymnasts are primed to upset the invading Ulenmen, and if their medley trio of Milligan, Pincombe, and Hatch manages to nose out the regular Crimson Bosworth, Waldron, Stowell combination, the meet may not be decided until the final free relay. There, however, Harvard has at least a three second edge...
Conceding the Gymnasts an upset victory in the medley, they must then place their main reliance on Harry Rawstrom, in the 220 and 440, Art Beck in the 60, Carl Condon in the dive, Don Lotz in the century, Gir Milligan and Ed Shea in the backstroke, and Archie Pincombe in the breastroke for enough points to carry the meet into the free relay...
...wondered for whom examinations could have been invented if not for the students. The faculty? Of course the faculty had to deal out grades; and grades were based on examinations. Vag wistfully remembered how he got an E for an upset stomach and an A for his flexible wrist. Shuddering, he pictured the dim Victorian Gothic church in which he had squatted tensely over his bluebook, too paralyzed to think, trusting implicitly his flying hand to remember what had evaporated within his brain. No, Vag decided energetically, if examinations and grades are bedfellows, let us chuck them both...