Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Europe. A certain General Adolfo Baldrich promptly challenged General Uriburu to duel. General Uriburu announced that his pleasure trip to Europe was really a most pressing trip to Germany where he would undergo a necessary surgical operation. General Baldrich repeated his challenge. The Government intervened. ' It announced: "Senator Palacios, the great authority on duelling codes, has ruled that insufficient grounds exist for this challenge." Meanwhile, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen who, as President, was overthrown by the coup d'état of General Uriburu, was let out of jail, promptly resumed his political activities. Back from exile arrived...
...electrical field, and a second in the field of structural engineering, concentration in the field of Engineering Sciences assumes a comprehensive basis. As a result of changes in the number, regulation, and scope, of the courses given for concentrators in this field, students are now enabled to undergo serious study of engineering subjects without the professionalized standards of laboratory work that are maintained by full-fledged engineering students...
...been contributing to the cause of science by allowing experts from the Medical School to take samples of his blood while he is relaxed and then while he is in the heat of competition, it was learned yesterday. The corpuscular composition of the blood is believed to undergo some slight transformation under muscular and emotional stress and the medical authorities are trying to ascertain this change with Wood as the specimen. Wood has submitted to these blood tests after the football games this fall and now is giving samples of his blood after the hockey tilts...
...ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good-by to her under the impression that her prison is a hospital and that she is leaving him to undergo a minor operation. To reveal its tragic conclusion in no way impairs the effectiveness of this sombre and spectacular fiction. Greta Garbo is to many the supreme tragedienne of the cinema and the picture is a darkly theatrical hyperbole, intent on glorification rather than illusion...
From this beginning grew the Oxford Union of today. The Society fills the Debating Hall, located in one of its two splendid buildings, every week with from 350 to 500 undergraduate members. Here Britain's embryonic Parliamentarians and business leaders undergo their first forensic bombardments. The "maiden speech" at the Union is an event recalled fondly in later life by many a British statesman. Overlooking the scene of the weekly debates stand the busts of a King and three Prime Ministers--all once leaders of the Union. The speakers who meet Harvard tomorrow evening have received their training in this...