Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be of interest to ascertain just how many modern medical schools depend upon the actual administering of this oath in place of teaching ideals by precept...
...December 17th, we gave to Mr. Frank Fracassi, of Niagara Falls, our renewal subscriptions. We have received the cancelled check from the bank, so know it was cashed, but have been unable to ascertain whether or not the money was turned over...
...part of the same program there will be an investigation of labor conditions of dining hall employees, with stress laid upon the number of hours worked and the wages paid. Food companies supplying the University will also be investigated to ascertain whether or not their employees are working under union conditions. Pressure will be brought to bear upon the dining hall management to make its purchases only from companies which advocate union labor. The League plans to campaign for cigarettes purchased from companies with union labor...
...they are interested only in the predicament in which young men of a certain class suddenly and bewilderingly find themselves. The authors do not endeavour to theorize on a plane of universality; whatever else they may be, they are conspicuously honest, and understand that their problem is simply to ascertain where, if anywhere at all, they and men like them belong...
Your kindly and understanding comments about General MacArthur will be especially pleasing to those who have taken the trouble to ascertain the facts about his handling of the 1932 Bonus Army. For doing a job well which he was ordered to do, for doing it in person which he need not have done, he has taken a great deal of criticism in silence, like the fine soldier...