Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swift to proclaim. But the most vital of all of the Chairman's avowals was his far-sighted prediction for the future. "It is a part of the intelligence to expect that we shall learn how to improve social security constantly, and that through the years the system will undergo definite and steady evolution...
...ineffable patient of the Vatican's Dr. Aminta Milani has proved a difficult one. Long known to be gruffly impatient of other people's illnesses, so that wise underlings kept out of his sight when ailing, Pius XI resolutely declined to undergo a thorough physical examination. He not only was shocked at the idea of appearing naked before anyone but even balked at having his pulse counted, until lately Dr. Milani managed to excite his interest in the technique of this simple operation. One story ladled out last fortnight by the "Vatican Voices" was that for no less...
After an habitual smoker stops, says Dr. Dorsey, his senses of smell and taste become acute. Appetite shows marked improvement. "Nervous, undernourished young women in particular are sometimes seen to undergo a renaissance. . . . Likewise the tense, active, tired man often improves his state of health...
...Tenth Biennial Congress of the Co-operative League of the U. S. in Columbus, Ohio, last week President James P. Warbasse outlined in splendid simplicity a procedure by which "ordinary" capitalist corporations might undergo a sea change, become co-operatives in rour steps.* Said he: "By these natural steps a profit economic system can transform itself into a co-operative system without shock, or without any action of government whatever...
...Trenton convened the National Association of Fortune Tellers (membership: 110) to plan the profession's 1937 program. Keynoted President Helena A. (''Gypsy Lee") Perota of Manhattan: "Fortune telling is not going to escape modernization. It will undergo a streamlining process. . . . It will have a regard for those who have practiced predicting in the past, read palms, stars, handwriting, cards, head bumps and tea leaves. But 1936 has ushered in a new era in the profession with introduction of beer suds reading. The results are as accurate as those obtained from other readings...