Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet afternoon 104 years ago, browsers in the British Museum were "attracted from their agreeable pursuit," as the London Times reported, "by hearing a loud crash, and on hastening to ascertain the cause they found that which was the 'admired of all admirers' . . . scattered in fragments...
Denmark made haste to get on the bandwagon, announced that Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen would fly to Washington to ascertain "the best possible basis for Denmark's final decision." There was hardly any doubt that Denmark would sign. Sweden made no move to abandon her lonely "neutrality," but she would find it increasingly uncomfortable as time went...
...test, drawn up by the College Entrance Examination Board, will seek to ascertain general knowledge, including vocabulary and social studies, rather than a concrete and exacting understanding of legal doctrine. A deeper view of student aptitude is the intended goal of the test, which may eventually be adopted by all the nation's law schools...
...what shocks me most of all is the character of the preaching that seems to prevail in your churches. ... So far as I can ascertain, the paradigm of American preaching is: 'Let me suggest that you try to be good.' Moralistic homilies are still the order...
Lally, who has been maintaining contact with the two officials, said yesterday that he expects the Council to poll the College, immediately upon receipt of the report, to ascertain undergraduate demand for parking facilities...