Word: ascertains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trials for the Glee Club, which were begun last night, will be continued tonight and tomorrow night at 7.30 o'clock in Sever 11. Candidates will be tested only to ascertain the range and quality of their voices and need bring no music. All those desirous of entering the club are expected to try out at this time, as it will be the last opportunity to do so before Mid-Years...
...Western railroads asked for an 11% increase in rates. On Sept. 1, the commission will begin an inquiry in the Western district with three objects: 1) To find out what agricultural products need lower freight rates; 2) to determine what reductions may be made in such rates; 3) to ascertain on what products freight rates may be increased to compensate for the reduction in rates on farm products...
...results of wrong opinions, or the imperative duty of thinking aright. Nor is it any excuse that other people think the same. It is quite as bad, and often worse, to think wrong with the majority as to be in the wrong alone. If truth were so easy to ascertain that all honest-minded people instinctively thought alike the duty to think aright would involve too little effort to need an exhortation. Life is so complex in its personal, social, public and international relations, it has so many facets, refracts the light in so many different ways, that...
...possible, and form our judgments by earnest, painstaking effort. We must beware of assuming that an idea is true because it is old or because it is new, but try simply to discover whether it is true or not. To put the matter more accurately, we must endeavor to ascertain how much of truth or error it contains; for from history we learn that the common mistake of men has been to assume that of two opposing views one is absolutely right and the other wholly wrong, when in fact each had a savor of truth confused by exaggeration...
...criticism, iit was stated semi-officially that France had no intention of overlooking her debt to the U. S.; but, as Britain is willing to accept a sum from friend and foe on the Continent sufficient to pay her debt to the U. S., France is obliged to ascertain exactly what her commitments to Britain are before con sidering her obligations...