Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intelligence. Three days after her operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size. She gurgled, tried to sit up alone and reach for his finger. "We're simply crazy about her now," cried beaming Mr. Jackson...
Although the mistress of the house commented with suspicion on the fact that the bricks came from the CRIMSON'S back yard, and that the rag was stained with printers' ink, a through checkup in this vicinity proved that such suspicions were both unfounded and unneighborly...
With the discovery that uncut fruit is served in all House dining halls without restriction or checkup of any kind, a wave of protest from Freshmen arose because of the Union policy of cutting and limiting the supply of oranges and apples...
...checkup made yesterday on the number of students attending Sundays' presidential tea throughout the year revealed an average figure between 15 and 35 for each such function. To date there have been 12, with a total attendance of 225 students...
...Gentile readers (goyische Lezer to Author Levin) may find themselves oppressed at times by the heavy, strident Jewishness of the book's atmosphere, but once under way most of them will be carried along by the momentum of the year's most naturalistic novel. After a hasty checkup, statisticians last week agreed that Author Levin had succeeded in printing twice as many four-letter unprintables as his nearest competitor to date...