Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity hockey team scored three consecutive goals in the last ten minutes of play at the Arena last night and upset highly regarded Boston University, 7 to 6. It was a superb exhibition of team play...
...Orleans, Louisiana State upset Tulane, 21-0, and won an invitation to meet unbeaten, untied Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl...
...Thrice-beaten Princeton pulled one out of the fire with less than two minutes to play, upset favored Dartmouth...
...continue to play Ivy League football, we must broaden the personnel at Valpey's disposal. It might be nice to upset Stanford or Army or Cornell with a team playing strictly for fun, but it is not morally justifiable to ask such a team to expose itself to a steady stream of almost inevitable injuries. Such a casualty list as this year's is a direct result of playing a schedule composed exclusively of teams which are not only deeper in talent but also deeper in numbers. One group of eleven men playing against two groups of eleven men gets...
...Dominant Element. The science of destruction, growing by leaps & bounds since World War I, has changed, and continues to change the whole face of warfare. During World War I, precision manufacture, mass production and the internal combustion engine upset all the old techniques. Barbed wire and the machine gun, recalls Author Bush, "ended forever the hot rush of masses of men." In modern times, says he in a typical scientist's estimate, not man but the factory became "a dominant element in the whole paraphernalia...