Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marcus' avowed aims is to apply the formal techniques of textual analysis to Engels' Condition of the Working Class, "to ascertain how far Literary criticism can help us understand history and society." The answer seems to be not very far at all. The half of his book that analyzes Engels' writing bogs down in the sort of overexplication of the obvious that has so often given literary criticism a bad name...
...adroitly did Wilson draft the speech that Heath was limited to criticizing the vagueness of the language. "It requires a consistent probing to ascertain what lies behind so much of its wording," he complained, adding that he could not judge it without "knowledge of the government's financial policies." Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe expressed delight that Labor had already "shed some of their unmentionables"-such as nationalization...
...environment which they can only perceive as hostile. They are isolated, surrounded by antagonistic people and forces. They find their landlord, the CHA, unresponsive and incompetent. They claim that a contractor hired by CHA to landscape the project had put up dead trees, and that attempts to ascertain the contractor's identity were rebuffed...
Wholly unsatisfied, Republican Senator Howard Baker bore in with emotion. "Would you tell me, Mr. Mitchell, what is your perception of the institution of the presidency?" Replied Mitchell with a smile: "Is that part of the purpose of this committee, to ascertain from me the perception of the presidency?" Insisting that this was highly relevant, Baker asked: "Is the presidency so shrouded in mystique, is there such an aura of magnificence about the presidency, is there such an awe some responsibility . . . that the presidency in some in stances must be spared the detail, must be spared the difficulty of situations...
They also conferred with Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok and coordinator of the University's affirmative action program. Leonard assured them that he was maintaining constant touch with women in the University community to ascertain their ideas regarding affirmative action...