Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bill No. 3855 has received a great deal of favorable discussion in Congress, for its purpose is in keeping with the usual attitude of that body whenever the interests of the Indian conflict with those of the white man: "To ascertain and settle land-claims of persons not Indian within the Pueblo lands, land-grants, and reservations" is the statement in its preamble, but outsiders have pronounced it a poorly disguised attempt to rob the Indians of what little land they have left. And this, in spite of the possession by each chieftain of the tribe of a silver-headed...
...case and a study of the official report of the proceedings before we reach the conclusion that "their death was brought about by a mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical"? Is it not a cardinal prerequisite for any sort of constructive thinking to ascertain the facts and not reach a decision before that has been accomplished? It is easy of course to pronounce our ex cathedra judgments in a case, if we can presuppose the existence of certain facts a, b, and c. But is it not a brutum fulmen and a perversion of college...
...last day that the Union will be open to everyone in the University, for beginning tomorrow it will be closed to all except members. On and after tomorrow no cash purchases will be allowed, but all purchases will be charged on University term bills. If any member wishes to ascertain the amount of his Union charges at any time during the year he should enquire at the Bursar's Office...
...order to obtain books, the borrower should look up in the Card Catalogue the book which he wants, to ascertain the call-number or shelf mark. He should then make out a slip for each book wanted; a buff colored slip if the book is for outside use, or a blue slip if it is for use in the Reading Room...
Every once in a while I have occasion to consult your scurvy sheet in order to ascertain at what time and place I must disgorge my knowledge in some remote field of human erudition. Thus motivated I opened your number of April tenth and inadvertently read the editorial eastigating the "Nation" for its judgment in referring to our super-finishing schools for defective flappers as the intellectual centers of America. Heartily as I agree with you in this criticism, I must take exception to your closing sneer in which you called the editors of the "Nation" and the "New Republic...