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Penn State, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, and Pennsylvania are all well represented and any one of them may upset the dopesters and take first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAVOR CRIMSON RUNNERS TO WIN NEW YORK I. C. 4A. | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...worked up a frenzy telling about her love-conversion by Robert Semple: "He had curly brown hair and a beautiful face and he upset me." She wrote to him. He came back, married her and they preached their way to China, where he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: All Charged Up | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Besides its upset by the University, the Green sextet has dropped a 4 to 2 contest to Williams, whom it had previously toppled on three occasions, and played a three-period overtime 1 to 1 deadlock with Yale, which fell before Harvard last Saturday. Beyond this, Dartmouth boasts a 4 to 3 victory over Yale in two overtime periods, two triumphs over Princeton, and four conquests of other outfits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY LAURELS BECKON CRIMSON IN GAME TONIGHT | 2/23/1927 | See Source »

...borne Novelist Owen was doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Observers mused over Dr. Suzzallo's "hardboiled" stand. It was curious to recall that Governor Roland H. Hartley of Washington, Dr. Suzzallo's foe in the state's recent politico-educational upset, once styled child welfare work, which is what the Oregon teachers were virtually proposing for themselves, as "this uplift gush. . .altruistic twaddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School & Society | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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