Word: ascertainment
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...time it happened, back in 1940, no one really did ascertain the facts of the case, since the two students involved fled from the elevator's wreckage before they could be questioned. Last week, however, a Greenwich Village weekly newspaper, the Village Voice, published an interview with Paul M. Hollister, Jr. '41, a local author and painter. Half the article was devoted to his recollections on cracking up the elevator...
Whether these charges are true or not is impossible to ascertain for the moment. But one thing is certain: these accusations and counter-accusations, and the tendency of both Americans and Russians to regard the Olympics in the light of a political struggle, are seriously jeopardizing whatever good will the Olympics may be able to generate...
...system enables the police to ascertain readily the owner of any out-of-state car which is parked suspiciously near the Harvard area. The police have always been able to look up the owners of Massachusetts cars...
...President Avery Brundage was not promoting a new addition to the Olympic oath ["I am now, and intend to remain, an amateur"-Aug. 13]. He was reporting an amplification, not a change, of the pledge which has been in the rule book for years. The object is only to ascertain the intention of the competitor at the time of signing the pledge, there was "no surprise to learn that there might be athletes who could not predict their futures." Moreover, there was no "backtracking," only an explanation. The statement does indicate when "aspiring pros become illegitimate." It is that minute...
...Student Council Committee to investigate the Thimann Plan last night decided to hold a forum to ascertain faculty and student opinion on the proposal to abolish non-honors work in the Biochemical sciences...