Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manage the cold truth, though not weekly. Newspaper book-pages must rely on impressions served up as facts by worried booksellers who, only human, may sometimes let the wish father the thought. Might not TIME at its convenience poll a) book-publishers, b) booksellers, c) book-editors to ascertain whether they do not, like Pearl Buck, regard this best-seller business as half nuisance and half outright thimbleriggery...
...Federal securities. Last week he did so. ¶ Major White House visitors of the week: Union Pacific's William Averell Harriman, who discussed a Business Advisory Council meeting at Sun Valley, Idaho; Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the FCC, to discuss the Commission's investigation to ascertain whether radio broadcasting is a monopoly; Idaho's Senator William Borah, to discuss his bill to enforce anti-trust laws through Federal licensing of corporations. ¶ Presidential plans: a ten-day fishing trip starting this week; a two-month cruise along the west coast of South America next summer...
...thousand of the foreigners now fighting in Spain shall withdraw from the Rightist and also from the Leftist side; 2) After these "token withdrawals," commissioners dispatched by the Non-intervention Committee shall ascertain with fair accuracy the numbers of interventionists, this with a view to the ultimate withdrawal of all in "progressive and proportional" stages; 3) When the Nonintervention Committee finds these large-scale withdrawals have reached a "substantial" total, the Great Powers are to grant full belligerent rights to the Rightist Government and to the Leftist Government...
...extent its powers may be and are extended. The story of the Duke experiments is in itself, even without considering its significance, an exciting one. With his colleagues, Professor Rhine set about testing the mind of the ordinary man. With a pack of specially prepared cards, they tried to ascertain whether the mind could display powers which could not be attributed to the functions of the known five senses...
Anyone who reads the headlines in the newspapers of this country knows that Japan is in a particularly feverish stage of her ago-long quarrel with China. Anyone travelling in Japan is spared the trouble of reading the headlines to ascertain this fact...