Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether he actually walked out with his ice skates draped around his neck, intending to use them that night, or whether he was merely locating them for a future spin, an anxious family count of several pairs of ice skates in the house closets has failed to ascertain...
...Indo-Chinese "free state" of Viet Nam (the provinces of Tonkin and Annam) within the French Union. But this was not enough. The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese. The French agreed to hold an election to ascertain the wishes of the Cochin Chinese. Meanwhile, separatist agitation in Cochin China must stop. The Vietnamese tartly replied that if the separatist case was not properly presented, the election would be unfair. Ho & Vo. Viet Nam is headed by Ho Chih-minh (He Who Enlightens), president of the Indo-Chinese...
Resolved: that the Security Council under Article 34 of the Charter establish, a commission to ascertain the facts relating to the alleged border "violations along the frontier between Greece on the one hand and Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia on the other...
Just where the roots of this loyalty lie is hard to ascertain. The attachment is complex, involving personal devotion to classmates and faculty members, abetted by the gratitude demonstrated by beneficiaries of Harvard scholarships, and seasoned with satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) over the job that Harvard is doing and the position it commands in the scholastic community. College anywhere is an experience of youth that is cherished in the memory the majority and buried away by the hypersensitive few. But memories of attendance at Harvard are enriched by the intellectual imprint of such greats as Charles Townsend Copeland, Barrett Wendell, Santayana...
...delegates in order to get comfortable rides home in delegation cars. The offenders were requested to refrain from such tactics. Within ten minutes a retaliatory notice appeared: "It has come to the attention of the U.N. Correspondents Association that some delegates have been posing as reporters in order to ascertain what is going on in some committees. This practice must stop...