Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCarthy and Mrs. Peterson were chatting they came to the subject of furniture. Said Mrs. Peterson: "Now I hope we can buy some new rugs for the school, since we won't have to pay so much for sterilizations." Questioned further, she told her visitor that during her predecessor's regime, 62 of Beloit's inmates had been surgically rendered incapable of having children, that 22 more had been scheduled for similar operations when she took office. Having verified from the ledgers of the institution that approximately $4,000 had been paid for sterilizations during two years...
...tortoises, protect themselves by withdrawing everything-beginning, ending, and legs to stand on-under a shell of unassailable convention. Many Mansions' armor plate-the Church-does not succeed altogether in fending criticism from its vulnerabilities: its stiff dialogue, thin ideas, creaking earnestness. Nevertheless, the play's carapacious subject will probably save it from instant death...
...stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive Man, the Scholar, the Hysterical Mystic, the Infantile Man, the Man who Waits for the Right Time, while red-bannered masses see the forward and underneath...
...transit gloria mundi," or so is the bubble of the Cambridge collegian pricked by the witty caustic observer from Smith who next chooses Yale as the place and the Yale man as the subject...
...wish to work on technique, the University could open the way for a more efficient development of both sides. In the Physics Department, for instance, one elementary course is devoted to those wishing to continue in the field and one to students merely wanting a general view of the subject...