Word: ascertainment
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...Columbus' estimate was 6,125 miles short.) On his voyages Amerigo remained awake, night after sleepless night, to study the stars and try to reason out what changes the New World's discovery forced in the science of navigation. "In the endeavor to ascertain longitude I have lost much sleep," said Amerigo, "and have shortened my life ten years, but I hold it well worth the cost. . . ." Columbus, the intuitive, estimated the speed of his ships by his heartbeats. Amerigo, the practical, calculated how far he had sailed by astronomy...
Among the proposals was also a plan for a civilian survey within the camps to ascertain the number of prisoners who would actually profit by democratic education. This, too, Secretary Stimson vetoed. He declared that the War Department has for some time followed the practice of segregating co-operative from non-cooperative prisoners and that a survey could add nothing to the present information or methods. "On the contrary," he said, "it probably would create suspicion and dissatisfaction ... and defeat the very purpose you have in mind...
...daylight blow, four planes were lost to enemy action; all the planes in the night raid returned to their bases. The Twentieth had paid heavily in men and material to ascertain what the Imperial Air Force could do to defend its homeland. But if this was the Jap's best, it was not good enough...
...blue-clad commander, spotlighted on the huge stage of Hollywood's Legion Hall, intoned: "The sergeant at arms will ascertain if there are any veterans of the world wars seeking admission to the American Legion...
...luck, which befell us in the Disbursing Course. Many feel that they slipped quite a way down in the final and others wonder how they can possibly have passed. The final grades, including as they did the results of two closed book "pop" quizzes, were all but impossible to ascertain in advance...