Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bolivia, immediately suggested neutral investigation of whatever had occurred in Gran Chaco. The reply of the Bolivian government was to break off relations with Paraguay last fortnight, and to send more Bolivian soldiers last week into Gran Chaco, where at least 200 humans met death in circumstances impossible to ascertain...
...board at Memorial Hall for November was $4.67 which is less than was anticipated. The affairs of the Association however have reached a crisis. Men still continue to leave and if the number is further diminished the Association will be unable to go on after the holidays. To ascertain what is the feeling among the students on this question a book will this week be placed at the Bursar's office which men who are in the Association and who intend to stay in it are requested to sign; men who now board outside willing is to come into...
...post office officials when queried as to the amount of correspondence that passed between Harvard men and Radcliffe students admitted that it would be impossible to ascertain. The possibility of frequent phone calls would naturally make any such figures an uncertain gage of the correspondence passing between the two institutions...
...quotations like the well-known one of Professor Marquand to the effect that the Harvard Stadium is architecture, that of his own university, very satisfactory engineering. Scientists might be called in to measure the wear and tear of the last twenty-five years with delicate instruments in order to ascertain the extent of the Stadium's dilapidation. Some pained group of alumni might even ask for a retraction. But undergraduates with their happy indifference will do better to take Time for the rusty little organ it is and discard its serious avowals of truth for truth's sake...
...wanted the same B. R. & P. to reach the eastern Great Lakes. The Van Sweringens, close friends and complements of the N. Y. C., apparently stood by. Only the Pennsylvania sided with Mr. Loree's aspirations. Even so, financial and railroad men believe (such things are impossible to ascertain), Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, while fanning Mr. Loree's fire with one hand, had his other hand on Mr. Loree's chestnuts. Whatever the opposing forces were, the Interstate Commerce Commission frowned against the Loree B. R. & P. purchase. He let his second (renewed) option lapse...