Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...esteemed contemporary. The Evening World, calls attention to a state of football affairs that is indeed curious. "Harvard won again this year," it says, "and everywhere this is regarded as air upset, as the dope had favored Yale Why? One is at a loss to think. The dope always favors Yale, so much so that the sports writers would appear to have a Yale complex. Yet the hard facts are that since 1906, when the forward pass was introduced and the modern game may be said to have started, Harvard has won eleven games and Yale only eight. Three years...
Twice Quarterback David Myers, brainy team-chief of New York University, fumbled at bad times playing against Georgetown. Watchers suspected that Myers was upset by a situation not connected with this game, in which Georgetown scored two touchdowns...
Unfortunately the Vagabond is not writing while en route to Michigan. Situations have taken a bad turn for him; for he was shamefully prevented from reaching Yost Stadium. And the utter defeat of his carefully laid schemes has greatly upset the dean of all week-enders...
Professor Henderson has no elaborate system to offer, he has invented no machine to produce college graduates, he suggests nothing to basically upset present programs. Instead, he goes to the heart of the educational body--the men who teach. And when he suggests the use of the vast funds available for education directly towards raising the standard of these men he makes an appeal to all who place the everyday, human element first...
...Enough to say that it was of a sort that caused a slight but almost continuous discomfort and at times a serious nervous upset, from childhood to the day of his death. It prevented the little boy from playing football, baseball, and all other strenuous games. And it probably was a factor in causing his terrible headaches, his still more terrible temper, his ghastly dyspepsia, and his nightmares...