Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight general managers of Western Union Telegraph Co. last week received Circular Letter No. 467-31 from their colleague, Superintendent Frederick W. Lienau. Mr. Lienau, now Western Union's contact man with state and national rate-making bodies, once engaged a Harvard man whose job was to probe into Western Union's letter files all over the country to see that good English was being used by the company. Schooled at Heidelberg, versed in German, French and Greek. Contact Man Lienau is still a stickler for proper English usage. Now he had apparently been pained beyond endurance...
...face the Republican-controlled legislative committee which has been investigating the municipal government. From the outset Boss Curry had resisted this inquiry as a piece of partisan politics. As a matter of party duty his Tammany henchmen blocked, balked, thwarted and nullified the committee's efforts to probe the scandals of New York to the bottom. Now Boss Curry was summoned to explain and justify his opposition...
Journalism, To the Atlanta Constitution, a gold medal worth $500 for "most disinterested and meritorious public serv- ice": a probe, instigated by able Editor Clark Howell, of corruption in Atlanta's municipal government, resulting so far in eleven convictions and ten pleas of guilt to charges of fraud, bribery...
Philosophers, theologians, sociologists and others dealing with the affairs of men may derive despair from the uncertainty of past as well as of future. Physicists are for the present content. Statistical studies of average group action have helped them to probe marvelously deep into Nature...
...urging a delegation of Yaile undergraduates to spend tow days Yale undergraduates to spend two days under its residential regime firmly indicates the strong bonds of friendship between the undergraduates of the two universities. It is a generous offer which allows the hyper-critical student of another college to probe both the successes and defeats of the other. Mistakes there are bound to be where a revolutionary change has taken the place of a tradition hallowed by two and a half centuries of existence...