Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Examiners encounter a varied set of answers to tests calculated to ascertain the mental ages of the children by means of having them explain various pictures. One, portraying a loving couple with supplies, being paddled down a stream in a canoe was explained as a kidnaping, a picnic, a couple sick of life and about to jump off at Niagara, and just a picture of a boy friend and a girl friend. Loyalty to the family likeness upset one test when it was found that a little girl of fire was insisting that the homely woman in the test...
...January of this year an orchestra was organized in Charlotte and from the literature I am sending you will be able to ascertain the type of work we are doing. We have about 15 former symphony men playing in this orchestra and in due time you will hear great things from this group. We have in Mr. Guillermo de Roxlo one of the most capable of the young composers and conductors of Europe. This orchestra is supported by music lovers of the city and is sponsored by three of the outstanding leagues of the city. A large number...
...Manhattan last week, the United Lutheran Synod of New York, also aroused on birth control, memorialized the national church to request the Federal Council "before making public pronouncements ... to ascertain first, when possible, the position of all churches involved and to list any such as may not be in agreement...
...pure air is a non-conductor of electricity unless ionized, it was found that a hitherto unknown agency accomplished that ionization with increasing intensity as the altitude above sea level was increased. It was concluded, therefore, that the electrifying agency originated outside the Earth; it was accordingly determined to ascertain the nature of the so called cosmic rays, and one of the first essentials to be determined in their study is their origin...
...delegates to the convention will spend much of their time examining the political conditions in English towns and in attempting to ascertain why the corruption of public employees is so much less prevalent in Great Britain than in the United States, according to Dr. Benson, who left last night...