Word: ascertain
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Persons desiring to ascertain the classes or consultation hours of officers of the University giving courses under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences may call line 175 on the University switch board, University 7600, or apply directly to the files in University 3. Here the records are available, and it is hoped that within several weeks no information will be lacking...
James Carruthers Masson of Rochester, Minn. (Mayo Clinic) said: "If it were possible to ascertain the number of cases of cancer throughout the country, the number of successful operations and the number of deaths prevented, the evidence most conclusively would support the conviction that the control of cancer is being realized to an increasing extent...
Thus did Col. Arthur Wagner, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Military Intelligence, convey to Lieut. Andrew Summers Rowan the wish of President McKinley that he seek, in the jungles of Cuba, Lieut.-Gen. Calixto Garcia, insurgent Cuban leader, carry to him a McKinley message, ascertain the size and strength of Spanish forces...
...June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were aboard, did not consult the weather bureau regarding weather conditions, did not carry suitable tools, and did not make adjustments for changing the radio receiving set into a transmitter, which would have enabled them to communicate with the outside world." Also, inexplicably, they...
...snowballed him on the street he prosecuted relentlessly, and he could not be appeased until a considerable fine was imposed; but he paid the fine himself. Many a bold push was made to ascertain his age; yet, however suddenly the question came, or however craftily one crept from date to date, there was a uniform lack of success. "I see Allibone's Dictionary says you were born in 1805," a gentleman remarked. "Some statements have been nearer, and some have been farther from the truth...