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Word: upsetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pictures of the Bacchante in fair weather and foul, and gazed thoughtfully at the awesome linea ments of their old commander, Captain Lord Charles Scott. "I made the King laugh!" cackled Old Bill, emerging from his interview in high glee. "I recalled to him how once he near upset the captain's gig, of which I was coxswain, by his skylarking! Look, he gave me his picture in an admiral's uniform." George V, still mindful of the fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sprats and the Coxswain | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...possible that these famed undergraduates could be so upset at a munificent gift, attached to a clause that the Houses to be built with the money be lived in--dormitories which read like Aladdin's Fairy Palaces? Even the magazines for the tables have been minutely listed, to avoid slighting any individual taste. A secret suspicion occurs to us--can it be--softly, while we whisper--perhaps it is only Harvard's pride in its "indifference" that is offended! It may be that they are resenting this assumption that they are like any other students, that their welfare must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Woman Of It | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...finals of the intramural squash tournament completed yesterday, the Freshman team, champions of the Inter-Class League, upset Delta Upsilon, victors in the inter-fraternity competition, to win the intramural championship. The score, 2 to 1, indicates to some extent the closeness of the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN RACQUETMEN WIN INTRAMURAL SQUASH TITLE | 3/29/1929 | See Source »

...Senior eight stroked by S.W. Swaim '31 upset the supremacy of the Sophomore B crew stroked by James Lawrence, Jr. '29 by defeating the latter in a slow mile and three quarter race in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORE B SUPREMACY UPSET BY SENIOR EIGHT | 3/29/1929 | See Source »

Karl W. Fasold (Pathe). He turned his crank while Racer Frank Lockhart's car, upset by a blow-out in a time-trial last year, somersaulted over his head in one of its giant bounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newsreelers | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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