Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale's custom of having makeup exams in the fall is of long standing. Any man who fails a subject in the spring must undergo a re-trial when he comes back to college, and until two years ago all those who passed such an exam were immediately reinstated and allowed to represent Yale on the athletic field...
These men will undergo further testing for the post on Tuesday at 9 o'clock in Sanders Theatre: Jan LaRue '39, John S. Morgan '39, Jonathan Schiller 2G., David Shand 1G., Chester W. Williams...
...dream world of Damon Runyon. A hard-boiled restatement of the Nativity story, it presents a trio of crooks whose female front (Betty Furness) falls in love with a rich man's son (Robert Young) whom they intend to swindle. When the young couple marry they are disinherited, undergo progressive misfortunes until they end up in a Pennsylvania barn. The crooks pull a robbery for which Young goes to jail. Not until the end of the film does the dreamy Runyon touch appear. On Christmas Eve in a manger near Bethlehem, Pa., the amiable criminal, who happens...
...nicks the woman's vulva so that it will spread and prevent the birth from tearing the perineum. Deftly he inserts the forceps, engages the baby's head, pulls with all his cleverness. The baby is born, apparently little disturbed by the greatest strain it ever will undergo the rest of its life...
...stature of our native population. With this go hand in hand appreciable differences in bodily form. Just in the same way as the proportions of body, head and face of animals born in captivity change when compared with their wild-born ancestors, thus the bodily proportions of man undergo minute changes in new environment. In some types the forms of head and face of immigrants are wider than those of their children. . . . These changes do not obliterate differences between genetic types, but they show that the type as we see it contains elements that are not genetic...