Word: undergoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, Jack Barnaby's charges undergo a varied and gruelling schodule with local clubs, other colleges, and tournaments. The clubs are divided in to three leagues, into each of which Harvard enters a team. Membership on those five men teams may be varied each week. In the first two matches of the season Harvard's "A" squad was downed by the Harvard Club of Boston, 3 to 2, and by the Tennyson Racquet Club...
Last week it came the turn of the most ancient country in Europe to undergo the frightful courtship of the Axis. Greece began to feel the squeeze...
Since some 70% of the Catholic priests and officers of Japan are foreigners, the church is certain to undergo further restrictions. Catholics, like Protestants, meanwhile paid obeisance at Shinto shrines...
Henry Wallace stood last week on the cornstalk-decorated stage of the Coliseum in Des Moines to undergo what was a political ordeal for a shy man-to accept the Democratic nomination for Vice President. His unruly hair combed back for a change, his wide features expanding in a boyish grin, he beamed on the crowd in a way that made it unmistakable-it was a great occasion for him. The crowd of 7,000 to 8,000, almost filling the Coliseum, roared back, waved banners WELCOME HOME, HANK and WHO WANTS WINDY WENDELL WILLKIE...
...believed (in the words of Financial Writer Ralph Hendershot) that Willkie "will get more for the Government's money." And thousands of U. S. businessmen, turning their backs on President Roosevelt for what they hoped was the last time, felt a great psychological release. Even if they must undergo more regimentation for Defense than they have for Depression, the regimenter will be no landed-gentry reformer, but one of their own kind...