Word: ascertains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson team did not hold practice yesterday. Instead, it met in the rooms of Captain Walter Greeley, for discussion, and an attempt to ascertain the problems which have caused it to lose three games...
...bulletin addressed to the principals and chairmen of departments of English and of speech, it was stated that the Survey would seek to ascertain the contribution which instruction in English and speech, through its emphasis on the four areas of communication, makes to the attainment of the objectives of secondary education. The basic assumption on which the Survey was planned was, therefore, that instruction in English is instruction in communication-in a two-way process between someone who speaks or writes (or has written) and someone (or a group) who listens or reads and who in turn may speak...
...study "the unconscious factors in courtship and mate selection," Dr. Robert F. Winch, a 40-year-old Northwestern University sociologist, explained what he meant. He had a hunch that love sometimes tricked people into marrying the wrong types and said that he proposed to study 25 wedded couples to ascertain their "hidden needs"-unconscious demands that must be satisfied if marriage is to succeed. The doctor, a married man himself, hoped to report in 18 months...
...Conference, sponsored by the International Relations Committee of Radcliffe's N.S.A. chapter, will consider Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Central America, in an attempt to ascertain the current situation in those areas...
Announcement of the rent jump had been expected earlier in the month but the University had to ascertain that the projected increase did not fall under jurisdiction of the January 26 price freeze. This freeze does not effect rents, it was discovered...