Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor of Prince Rupert, remote Canadian island just south of the Alaskan border, not long ago went a patient to undergo an operation. Suddenly he showed signs of diabetes. The physician, Dr. Richard Geddes Large, promptly dosed the man with insulin and asked him what he had been taking all these years in its place. The man said it was an infusion in hot water of the root of a spiny, prickly shrub called devil's-club (Echinopanax horridus). British Columbia Indians take potions of devil's-club for whatever ails them...
Preparation for this last milestone depends as much on the individual as on the tutor; it is a general exam covering the entire special field. Failure means that another and different exam must be taken as a Senior; success means that the concentrator will write a thesis and undergo an oral the next year on the century in which his thesis falls. Some members expressed the desire of seeing questions in the Junior divisional based more on a synthesis of history and literatures, with the marking adjusted to this basis...
Swedes, Italians, all chipped in to build new beet-sugar factories, power plants, cotton mills. Road builders arrived from Europe and America and construction companies were not long in learning that Teheran, "City of the Shadow of God." was to undergo a facial operation. The King of Kings guaranteed prompt payment in foreign cash...
...stronghold headed by famed Herbert Morrison, who may well be the next Labor Prime Minister. He asked that Don Jose Fernandez Villaverde, secretary to the Duke of Alba, who is the representative in London of Rightist Spain, be granted a renewal of his driving license "without requiring him to undergo a driving test or pay the fee of five shillings normally chargeable...
...interest in the project, they represented a larger percentage than can be hoped for in all the Houses. Yet the plan offers intelligent audiences of Cambridge and Boston social clubs, and the possibility of rapid promotion to the Varsity debating team; under such a stimulus this lost art should undergo a renaissance...