Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Knapp, Jr., '95, was drowned Thursday afternoon at Riverside. No one was near at the time of the upset, and in his efforts to save his fiance with whom he was canoeing he became so exhausted that he sank just as help arrived. The body was recovered...
...speech was a summary of the affirmative position. He said in part: We affirm that the United States should adopt the gold standard. This is our definite position and to it we would narrow the question. Bimetallism would cause a break in the par of exchange and would upset prices. It would not prevent the fall of prices. Prices fall because the proportional increase in production is greater than the increase of money. Under a double standard, money will increase proportionally as under a single standard. At best bimettalism would result in prices remaining the same or in falling prices...
...Yale barge was upset yesterday for the second time this season, and the crew had to swim ashore, pulling the barge after them...
...Baldwin was evidently considerably upset because Steward had not presented some definite plan, as he spoke in an uncertain tone. He demanded of the affirmative that they produce some definite plan and tell what they considered to be a permanent court. Then he went on to show that permanent courts are impracticable, and that the affirmative was trying to do what statesmen have not been able to do in centuries. The negative, he said, favor arbitration of some kind but it is in the shape of a permanent system such as is prepared by Lord Salisbury. The charge advocated...
...date seems to us better than the old for it gives more promise of making the vacation enjoyable. The first week in April, as far as the weather is concerned, is almost invariably an unpleasant one. Experience has shown that the plans of vacation after vacation have been upset by stormy or disagreeable weather. As we said last year in discussing this same subject before the change had been made, we believe that even if the old recess did divide the year a trifle more equally, this theoretical advantage is much more than counterbalanced by the practical advantage...