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...very difficult, Fairbank said, to ascertain how closely the Chinese adhere to the Russian political line. "Some Americans who have just returned from Peking told me the Chinese Communists are still very nationalistic...
Ralph E. Harris '50, one of Beatty's roommates in Leverett G-43, last night stated he had heard Beatty leave the room early yesterday morning. Doctors were unable to ascertain the exact time that he consumed the iodine-a regular household brand...
Meanwhile, to gain a better understanding of the College food problem in general, the entire Council will talk with vice-President Theodore Reynolds at lunch next week. They hope to ascertain what has been done since student investigations of the food situation began last Spring...
...meet with him in Washington. Taking the amiable view that the disputants just did not understand one another, Ching said optimistically: "There is a good possibility that the argument springs not from irreconcilable, fundamental differences, but from the meaning of words. At any rate, it is my duty to ascertain whether this is the case...
...quiet afternoon 104 years ago, browsers in the British Museum were "attracted from their agreeable pursuit," as the London Times reported, "by hearing a loud crash, and on hastening to ascertain the cause they found that which was the 'admired of all admirers' . . . scattered in fragments...