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...with Phillips. That smacks of cutting the throat to cure the cough. What many feel to be irresponsibility on Phillips' part is not the fault of the Council. When a question as serious as that raised by the Dunster referendum is involved, it is incumbent on all concerned to ascertain that their motives are not the product of personal distaste for the Council President...
...more foolish, Jaspers feels, than to listen to scientists on these ultimate questions. That is to confuse technical means with moral ends. To know the limits of know-how is the beginning of know-why. Philosophy, the kind that every man consciously or unconsciously possesses, "enables man to ascertain what exists and what he wants . . . Man can see what matters, can reflect, can change and can act. What happens if he does not is his fault, not blind fate...
...substitute resolution, a group of students proposed that a new steering committee (1) urge the President-elect to present to Congress legislation concerning a youth service program, (2) ascertain, in cooperation with their leaders, the needs of underdeveloped countries which U.S. youth could help meet, and report their findings to the President-elect and Congress, and (3) investigate the feasibility of using the youth service program as an alternative to the draft...
Raymond A. Paynter, associate curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, determined the next morning that the starlings were killed about the time the ill-fated plane crashed into Winthrop Bay. After examining remains of the birds, Paynter could ascertain that they died late in the afternoon, that they were hit by some powerful object, and that they were on the airport runway...
...undated early stage, the late Roman stage and the Byzantine stage, part of which had always been visible. The infuriating quality of "CG" is that it gets taller and taller. Partial excavation reveals two levels supported by a third. Flooding prevents a definitive look at this third level to ascertain if indeed the foundation doesn't lie further below. At the present moment, "CG" stands at about 43 feet tall...