Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white that she places them in the category of those which are against her public policy and which are therefore anathema. AUBRY MILLER Los Angeles, Calif. ... It is hardly sportsmanlike for you to say that California "does not mind" when, in fact, it has, as you could easily ascertain, a law on miscegenation. Section 60 of the California Civil Code says: "All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mongolians or Mulattoes are illegal and void...
...sent to attempt to ascertain the hour set for the Italians' explosion. Once in the village he is undecided whether to remain with his wife or return to the almost certain death of his comrades...
...difficult to ascertain the exact physical and mental handicaps undergone by the average undergraduate working for his living. Certainly he encounters fewer difficulties than if he were struggling alone; here he finds others interested in his own cause. True, undergraduate self-support means addition to the effort of maintenance to the effort of education, which naturally lends to decrease efficiency of education but given greater appreciation of its value. But self-supporting groups composed of only the so-called bright would signalize the failure of democratic education...
...Moreover, at this period Emperor Taisho had been an invalid for some years and had delegated his authority to the Crown Prince as Regent in November, 1921. Following this conference, Baron Tanaka, (the author of the alleged memorial) is declared to have been sent to Europe and America "to ascertain secretly the attitude of important statesmen" toward the Nine-Power Treaty. The last visit of Baron Tanaka to Europe and America occurred in 1913-1914. It is unnecessary to belabor this analysis, have taken only the first three pages, but it is possible to continue for page after page, pointing...
...This practice, admirable on the whole, has undoubtedly been carried too far, and Dunster has missed many opportunities for excellent House social functions. What members of the House have done they have done well. An economic society has been formed and a discussion group, whose purpose it is to ascertain the value of the various branches of learning, is now meeting bi-weekly. In this the tutors have taken a keen interest and some of the associates have been present to defend their fields of interest. But on the whole the associates with one or two exceptions have not responded...