Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings a bit hollow, that Mongolia and Siberia will receive the land hungry Japanese before there will be forced upon an unwilling west. This news is the information of a newspaper correspondent who has interviewed a number...
...object of the ballots which have been sent out is to ascertain first whether student bodies favor present prohibition laws, modification or repeal, and second why individual students vote as they do. Only by collecting the reasons underlying votes can figures be interpreted when it comes to drawing up a report for the Federation. With this in view the Committee has, in sending out its ballots, asked four questions as follows...
When questioned by the CRIMSON reporter as to the Crimson of the activities which were place in the very of the cupola and flag pole, President Whedon, Lampy's heavy leader, made the following pointed statement. "This is a party sent out by the American Mountaineers Society to ascertain if the lbis has yet laid any eggs...
...letter to the Secretary of Labor: "My attention has been called to one Count Ludwig Salm Von Hoogstraeten, an alien, who arrived in the United States on or about Dec. 1, 1925. . . . The alien in question apparently has no occupation, and, therefore, the usual inquiry by immigration officials to ascertain whether he had visible means of support should have been made. Inquiry should also have been made to ascertain whether or not this alien's passage was paid for in whole or in part by others as in the law provided...
...feet wide when first constructed, admitting only of foot passage, the supports, are to be placed so that it can be increased to 40 feet and thus accommodate vehicle traffic. Work thus far, which is being done under state supervision, has consisted in making borings to ascertain the nature of the ground in which the foundations must be laid. With four different gangs working, eleven borings have been made in all, nine through the ice on the river and one on each bank. The figures taken at boring number four, one of those where the drill...