Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporter Joe Harvey, a lawyer who covers Boston courts for the Globe, went painstakingly to work on every document dealing with Morrissey-from his birth certificate through his Kennedy jobs to his listings in the city directories -to help ascertain when he had and had not been present in Boston.* Statute books of Georgia and Massachusetts were studied to find what regulations applied to Morrissey at the time of his bar exam...
...women. The Useless Sex. The Anti-Sex. The Subjection of Women, and All Women are Fatal are prominently displayed. One of the cases contains on edition of Pierre de Bourdeille's. The Lives of Gallant Ladies, suggestively opened to "Fourth Essay--On Married Women, Widows and Girls to ascertain which class of them is botter in love than the others...
...thousands of dollars ($10 per head times at least 100 in each plane times 10 to 12 charter flights). It is not clear that even their unconscionable contract covers my case, and I have been refused access by Mr. Burke to look at their records to ascertain this. I was willing to compromise so as to get anything refunded; but Mr. Burke in his "discretion" knew that I would have to pay court costs, legal and investigatory fees to even attempt it, so that he was necessarily judge, jury, and adversary in this controversy. Needless to say, the interests...
...suggested, instead, that the Department of the Interior should contract with interested firms specifically to research methods of mining and processing. The process could then be made available on general license and, with the costs known, the government could ascertain the value of the land for the purpose of leasing...
...attempt to save money at Christmas vacation in December of 1963 and after duly noting the HSA fare of $106, I contacted TWA in order to ascertain the roundtrip fare to St. Louis for a group of college students. I discovered that the airline charged $105 per person for a group roundtrip to St. Louis. This was a considerable saving over the $131.26 per person regular fare and amounted to a $1 per person saving over the HSA fare. With this savings in mind, I contacted a number of Harvard and Radcliffe students from St. Louis and formed a group...