Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...members of a class to vote. It was suggested that Widener and Mallinckrodt be opened up for a similar period and even in the afternoon. The question is would this be worthwhile in order to secure perhaps twenty-five or thirty votes more? Would you have the Student Council undergo the expense of additional pictures, and would you have the obviously bored Juniors on this Committee be increased in order to have them sit for ten to fourteen more hours...
...Christmas Eve, 1927, Marshall Ratliff disguised himself as Santa Claus and, with three companions, robbed a bank at Cisco, Tex., killed two policemen. Captured and condemned to death, Robber Ratliff was returned to the county jail at Eastland, Tex., to undergo a sanity test. Eastlanders grumbled at the law's delay. Feigning paralysis, Ratliff last week snatched a gun from Jailor Tom Jones, killed him, but failed to escape...
Obstreperous journalists, undergraduate and metropolitan, might well undergo a certain amount of chest expansion at the news that one of their chance shots at improving the existent system of college athletics, has taken effect. Massachusetts Agricultural College is the proving ground: the goat is basketball, or possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport...
President Don Horacio Vasquez of the Dominican Republic, ill of a kidney ailment, flew (Pan American Airways) to Havana, to Miami, entrained for Baltimore where he, and perhaps his sick wife, will undergo treatment at famed Johns Hopkins Hospital...
...national system of secondary school education is to undergo examination by a recently appointed committee composed of professors, state school commissioners and teachers gathered from all parts of the country...