Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council Committee to investigate the Thimann Plan last night decided to hold a forum to ascertain faculty and student opinion on the proposal to abolish non-honors work in the Biochemical sciences...
William Morris Hunt '36, one of the festival's executive producers, emphasized last night that the new stage plans were not final and that Harvard would check the design before a definite approval was given. Since the set will be of a permanent nature, the University will have to ascertain whether or not the proposed arrangement will be suitable for its future...
...special shillelagh cocked for big business. Since General Motors is a giant -the biggest, most profitable corporation in the U.S. -it was the logical target last week for Democrat O'Mahoney's Senate antitrust subcommittee. Ostensible purpose of the hearing: to "appraise the antitrust laws" and ascertain "needed amendments...
...five dissenters to the motion, Levin pointed out, basically agreed with the petition but merely wanted time to ascertain the Faculty's point of view on the subject...
...meeting with Johnson and Rayburn was "a social and friendly visit" and was "not political in any sense." Against the persistent attempts of newsmen to get him to explain his political intentions, Stevenson finally went this far: "My intentions are no mystery. I'm just trying to ascertain what the wishes of the Democratic leaders around the country are. Once I'm satisfied I know that, I will have something to say. In the meantime, I just haven't crossed that bridge...