Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into an event of no more sporting significance than a tug-of-war, or would have made it over into a kind of outdoor basketball, his was always among the first of the restraining hands. He recognized the place of football in American sport, and would not see it undergo a usurpation at the hands of rule makers...
...Legionaries, letting each kiss his ring. Upon the head of blind Frank Schobel of Philadelphia he laid his hands and said: "May the Lord bless you, dear boy, for what you have done and for what you have suffered. We are sure He will give you strength to undergo deprivation, also rewarding...
...Athletics Bingham announced that the football season of 1926 would see the reorganization of class football under a system of adequate equipment and efficient coaching, the plan was received quite justly as an experiment. As part of the much discussed athletics-for-all policy it had yet to undergo the most important verification of trial...
...seem to have worked. Besides, contributing to her wasted body a pitifully incongruous alacrity, they have apparently preserved her against the dismal disillusionment of old age. It is five weeks now since her foster son received a telegram notifying him that she had come to the U. S. to undergo operations that may save her sight. . . . Meanwhile the Manhattan hotel has a bill of $500 hanging over her head. The cafeteria refuses further credit. It is only too evident that the world knows her no longer as Dear Little Buttercup but sees in her broken body only the dust...
Royal Dutch-Shell. But President Whaley's statement was sufficient for Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell. Since his companies could not monopolize Russian oil production, he has been disparaging Soviet oil. British retailers of such Russian oil have had to undergo price-cutting, trade repressions. The London Daily Mail, notably, has badgered them mercilessly...