Word: ascertainment
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Well-informed sources have expressed considerable doubt whether a final decision will be made this evening. The indications point to the formation of an Investigation Committee which will first ascertain the facts and then submit a report to the Council for its consideration...
...bells are connected with the Rindge Fire Station and the Apted sanctum. Whether automatic sprinkler systems have been installed in the newly renovated Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy Halls it has not been possible to ascertain. The gongs not only serve to give a general alarm of fire, but also serve effectively to locate the hydrants...
...agency alone, the NIRA, has been responsible for 10,000 or more pages of pronouncements, supposedly having the effect of law, in the period of one year, a total which greatly exceeds the volume of all Federal statutes now in effect. . . .* Under these circumstances even lawyers are unable to ascertain the law applicable to a given state of facts, and the presumption that every citizen knows the law becomes, to term it mildly, more than violent...
...College and the Graduate Schools, the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll on the Roosevelt "first year" is officially inaugurated today. The poll which is similar to the Digest's nationwide census of the Roosevelt policies, is conducted by the CRIMSON in connection with the Literary Digest in an effort to ascertain the true feeling at Harvard on the workings of the first year of the Roosevelt administration, which has just come to a close...
...hold that in case a ship is unable to stop in time to prevent a collision she is going too fast for the conditions, yet in this unique instance there are many extenuating circumstances. The "Olympic" which had navigated form Liverpool by dead reckoning until she was able to ascertain her position from radio beacons on this coast, was proceeding toward the Nantucket Lightship guided by its radio beacon, planning to alter course as soon as she passed the light. The usual procedure in such cases is to determine the proximity of the light by the increasing strength...