Word: ascertainment
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Among those who listen to broadcasts there are a few enemy agents in this country who derive from Nazi propaganda the cues for rumors that will tend to foster disunity among citizens. Professor Allport revealed. On of the best ways to run down enemy agents, he observed, is to ascertain the districts where rumors are most prevalent, and then try, if possible, to discover who is responsible for them...
...Marine Corps have bothered to send. There is no reason why he should be expected to make a survey single-handed of the myriad opportunities open to college men, when even the Public Relations office has not found time for it. Any one who has tried to ascertain the relative chances in uncertain fields knows how fantastically difficult it is to find the right man, or to discover who is in charge. Far from being a part-time extracurricular activity for one Law Professor, this endless task can easily occupy the full energies of a large and hard-working committee...
...other words, the Committee did not suggest that the U.S. abridge its right to pass laws which might throw thousands of people out of work elsewhere (as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff did). What they urged was that before such laws can be passed, Congress should be legally bound to ascertain what their effect abroad would be, so that it could legislate with its eyes open...
...hope that you and the Senate Naval Affairs Committee will undertake to ascertain the facts in this case and the policy of the U. S. Naval Academy. And should this policy prove to be contrary to the American spirit of equality, we hope that you will take steps to correct...
...vaguely significant. Geneticists are fond of earlobe characteristics but do not yet understand their distribution patterns. Dr. Wiener declared that the most practical means of determining parentage can be found in the inheritance patterns of the four human blood groups. "It is a simple matter," says Dr. Wiener, "to ascertain what groups can occur in the children when the groups of the parents are known." Typical cases...