Word: ascertained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabot '89, chairman of the Department of Social Ethics, was named head of a newly formed bureau of prohibition yesterday by Prohibition Director Woodcock. Professor Cabot refused to make any comment on the functions of the committee, but according to Woodcock's statement, the committee has been appointed to "ascertain the truth regarding the operation of the 18th amendment," with special emphasis on child delinquency and juvenile drinking...
...logical approach, for the amendment was passed primarily as a social benefit. From a layman's view it has not been successful as such, and it has brought in its wake a host of political and economic evils. It will lie within the province of the committee, to ascertain the real benefits and the real evils which have accrued from prohibition, and to offer if possible correctives...
...landed. In Brindisi . . . where we landed for gasoline, we were in a hurry to be on our way over to Greece. But we had to remove the cowling from all three engines so that the local customs authority could examine the name plates on the engine crankcases and ascertain if the engines were the same as those named in our log books. Just what difference it could have made to him I was never able to learn. In Allerga [Italy] ... I once landed on a small intermediate military field due to shortage of fuel. I was immediately arrested and held...
Quick to get facts, Northfield's President Elliott Speer was the first to ascertain that the estate had been grossly over-estimated in popular notion, that it would come to scarcely more than $30,000,000 and that the residue, to be divided on a percentage basis, might not be more than $20,000,000. Thus, Northfield's share would be only $300,000 and Nanking's about $3,500,000. Even so, it was a huge sum for a theological seminary in China (raising deep questions as to its proper use); but it was not the golden vision which...
...selection of numbers to constitute the program was made with the intention of including a wide variety of types of songs and differences in dynamics in order to ascertain the relative effectiveness of the offerings. The program will probably consist of the following numbers: "My Spirit Be Joyful", by Bach; "Inimici Autem", by Lassus; "Spring Returns", a composition of Marenzio; "Salamaleikum", by Cornelius; "Jesu Dulcis", Vittoria; "Choruses from "Pinafore'", by Sullivan...