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Denmark made haste to get on the bandwagon, announced that Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen would fly to Washington to ascertain "the best possible basis for Denmark's final decision." There was hardly any doubt that Denmark would sign. Sweden made no move to abandon her lonely "neutrality," but she would find it increasingly uncomfortable as time went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Welcome | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...test, drawn up by the College Entrance Examination Board, will seek to ascertain general knowledge, including vocabulary and social studies, rather than a concrete and exacting understanding of legal doctrine. A deeper view of student aptitude is the intended goal of the test, which may eventually be adopted by all the nation's law schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Will Give General Test To Men Applying for 1948 Entrance | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

...what shocks me most of all is the character of the preaching that seems to prevail in your churches. ... So far as I can ascertain, the paradigm of American preaching is: 'Let me suggest that you try to be good.' Moralistic homilies are still the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Fatal Cushion | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Lally, who has been maintaining contact with the two officials, said yesterday that he expects the Council to poll the College, immediately upon receipt of the report, to ascertain undergraduate demand for parking facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Estimate for Car Lot Will Go to Council | 10/8/1947 | See Source »

Miss Tinker, editor of the year old magazine, said that polls requesting the innermost desires of the potential Harvard-Radcliffe reading audience would be distributed in all registration lines for the next five days. Results of the poll will ascertain just how far skirts, necklines, and changes in magazines will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radditudes Becomes Signature in Change By Annex Literatae | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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