Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Serge] Voronoff or any of the men who have been interested in rejuvenation have attempted to verify whether or not their method of treatment has brought about a real result. After all, what should be done if an operation is performed on a man 60 years old is to ascertain if, for instance, he has been brought back to 58 or 55 or 50. Now, no attempt has been made in that direction and nevertheless it is the only way by which we can knew if any method of treatment has been successful or not. ... In a biological or medical...
...late hour last night efforts were made to ascertain whether "The History and Traditions of Harvard College," the 80-page booklet sponsored by the College and published by the CRIMSON, would go into a second edition. The first edition of the popular volume, the first of its kind to appear in academic circles, has been completely exhausted, and it has been ascertained that many graduates and undergraduates have been unable to obtain copies...
...such radical change as this would entail, coming as it would in the nature of an after thought. But where such an innovation would be possible, that is in such courses that are pot, by their very nature, kept to rigid lines of study. I should like to ascertain the trend of campus opinion, in the hope that, if the plan should meet with enough backing a petition could be arranged for and, God being willing, a short reading period at the end of this semester actually become a reality. The Dartmouth...
...assistant superintendent of one of the Fletcher mines and were threatening to shoot him, "as an example to these Yankee Pirates." At Washington the Navy Department & Marine Corps could only bleat that for the past six weeks their scout planes have not been able to so much as ascertain the whereabouts of shrewd Guerilla Augusto Calderon Sandino...
...objects of this study are briefly, four in number: to learn whether criminals as a group are distinguished from law-abiding citizens by any hereditary physical defects or by any bodily anamolies which are due to disease or malnutrition; to ascertain whether there is any relation between the physical and mental traits of offenders: to discover any connection between the nature of the criminal's offense and his mentality; and to examine the relation of race and nationality to crime in this country...