Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardworking, outdoor lives of their grandmothers which made for small babies, easy deliveries. Just after dawn Grandmother Annie gave in. The physicians promptly sliced open Juanita's womb, delivered her of a healthy 9 ½lb. boy. Physicians thought that Juanita was probably the youngest woman ever to undergo a caesarean section. But they could not claim that she was the youngest woman ever to become a mother. Woman's capacity to bear children begins at puberty. That comes earliest in hot climates, latest in cold, with ages rang ing from 9 or 10 in some parts...
...learned that this great manufacturing concern, which does honor to French industry, has obtained all the financial backing necessary for operating. At no time has it ceased to be a good commercial proposition. With this financial aid Citroen will undergo reorganization, placing it in charge of more rational direction with the support and control of qualified experts...
Satire is the long suit of the more heady modern poetry, and that is the pity of it. Really brilliant puns are hidden in a mess of verbiage, without meaning to the unitiated. There are few who are prepared to undergo the rites of initiation, since there is the suspicion that the final mystery is worthless altogether and so the influence of these satirists as correctors of modern foibles is negligible...
...Englewood possess a certificate of health. Said Englewood's Health Director Irwin: "This will serve to keep out undesirables and it gives every employer a weapon which he should have. Domestics are in the same class with food-handlers, barbers and beauty parlor operators, all of whom must undergo the same examinations to prove themselves free from communicable disease...
...confusion which results from random and misguided decision the concentration plan owes many of its chief difficulties. Students who find that they have made a mistake must undergo the awkward and wasteful process of transference. Others may not discover their error until too late, and remain bitter critics of the field in which an unhappy guess has placed them. It is foolish to argue that freshmen can, if they will, easily get desired information from their advisers or from the official catalogue. The counsel of individual advisers, however ably given, is more than apt to be disregarded; and the catalogue...