Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected that Italy should order her soldiers to put corks on the points of their bayonets and her aviators to fill their bombs with cologne water. . . . Stockholm should say whether it desires our aviators before proceeding with a bombardment to release a couple of comrades in a parachute to ascertain whether there is a Swedish physician in the neighborhood...
...Jersey, although I merely asked to be paced at 30 m. p. h. The officers were polite and did not seem to know themselves the reason for their instructions. With all this talk of safety, I should think every assistance might be offered in enabling motorists to ascertain from time to time on the road whether their speedometers are accurate...
That an instructor teaches well in class does not necessarily imply that he is a good tutor. In fact it is extraordinarily difficult to ascertain how good a tutor a man will be until one has to work with him. Here one faces the difficulty of having to change a tutor whom one likes but with whom one cannot work properly. The tendency will be to avoid the problem until the situation becomes critical. However, careful thought in the first place on the selection of a tutor greatly increases the probability of a correct choice The freshman should see that...
Abandoning a proposal to make the non-resident students members of the Houses, the Investigation Committee distributed 800 questionnaires to ascertain the attitude of the commuters and the amount of financial support they would be willing to give. Preliminary returns indicated that the commuters were in full sympathy with the movement...
...This temporary injunction will issue for the purpose of allowing time for the court properly to consider the constitutional question involved and to ascertain whether a taxpayer's present right to sue at law to recover taxes illegally exacted from him will be taken away by Congress." No Christmas? To have its income from processing taxes cut off would prove a knock-out blow to the Roosevelt farm policy. The packers suing in Chicago alone pay taxes of some $95,000,000 a year. All told, processing collections reached $495,000,000 in fiscal 1935. Under its old contracts...