Word: ascertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murmured the Duke, who has his own terse way of putting things, "Must go to Buck House." Next morning His Grace, swinging a tightly rolled umbrella, arrived at Buckingham Palace to ascertain from his friend Edward VIII the royal pleasure as to what route the Coronation procession will take...
...silence, but once he sent for the writer of a particularly outrageous story, asked him how much he had been paid for it. When the newshawk replied: "Six dollars," Oscar drawled, "Well, the rate for lying is not very high in America. That's all I wished to ascertain. Good day." Back in Manhattan, he annoyed Fifth Avenue dandies by asserting that the only well-dressed men he had seen in the U. S. were the Western miners. Oscar Wilde failed to change...
Concludes Dr. Hooton: "One might define such an institute as an organization devoted to the purpose of finding out what man is like biologically when he does not need a doctor, in order further to ascertain what he should be like after the doctor has finished with him. I am entirely serious when I suggest that it is a very myopic medical science which works backward from the morgue, rather than forward from the cradle...
Specific questions under the four general headings of Scholarship, Character, Outside Activities, and Financial Need, would result in a critical estimate of the candidate's tutorial work, and useful comments on his intellectual qualities; it would be possible to ascertain more fully the extent of his participation in extra-curricular activities, and the effect of this on his work. Tutors are in a position to supply valuable information in regard to a student's financial status,--what efforts he is making to earn his way, and whether a scholarship would result in more time for study...
...student, to discover his marks before the prospect of spring vacation has eradicated his desire, must have at least a minor connection with the pretty young ladies in University 3, and to see his corrected paper--there politics, perseverance, and ingenuity produce no more results than an effort to ascertain President Conant's telephone number. The graded blue books in Professor Lowes' English 50 were returned. This is an indication that neither the laws of Massachusetts nor the statues of Harvard College prohibit such action. Perhaps this notice will bring to the attention of the academic brains directing the destinies...