Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys who comprise the gangs have to undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
...yard. It was decided, however, that this penalty was too sever, and the rules were amended to allow a first false break go unpenalized, while a second would cause the disqualification of the hurdler. To make the hurdles better able to stand up under the hard usage they undergo, it was decided to increase their weight from 16 to 24 pounds...
...great distance runner and conqueror of Nurmi visited Cambridge recently to undergo a violet ray treatment at the Soldiers Field locker building...
...newspapers long since assumed the robes of justice. For years the protagonists in sensational trials have been obliged to undergo scrutiny by a row, and lately a galleryful, of gimlet-eyed reporters, swift to pounce upon every crumb of speech or gesture; brusque, oily or slyly intrusive with their cameras at the courthouse door...
...Daley '27, regular guard on the Harvard football team, will undergo an operation for appendicitis this morning according to an announcement made in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. Dr. T. K. Richards '15, Harvard football physician for the last few years, will perform the operation...