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Word: probe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, both the Student and Graduate Councils continued investigations of the field's recent abolition. A five-man committee is heading the Student Council probe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Job Vanishes; Logan Takes Post at UCLA | 3/19/1948 | See Source »

Hour exams, term papers, and the validity of the University's testing system will receive the opening dig of a current Council probe tonight at 9:45 o'clock when Richard L. Hanford '49, chairman of the Council sub-committee on hour exams, and his cohorts, Sherman M. Funk '50 and Warren G. Vander Mass '48 discuss the problem over WHRV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Airs Hour Exams | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

Other minor matters were bandied about by the local politics: Why registration? They'll investigate. Why not improvements in the course catalogue? They'll probe. What to do about parking? They tabled the issue of parking until the fall unless sufficient undergraduate pressure stirs them to action before then. Alarm was expressed about Red Book financial conditions...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: Within the Council's Smoky Chambers | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

...might make business at least share the blame: 1) an all-party committee of Parliament would look into profiteering; 2) there would be prosecutions "where necessary" under the Combines Investigation Act and Prices Board regulations. Despite promises to the contrary, many an astute political observer felt sure that the probe would turn into a Roman circus, with Liberal and CCF lions crunching the bones of business. The Financial Post sneered that the government had acted out of "A combination of political fear and old-fashioned peeve." Consumers would enjoy the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: To the Lions! | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...often that the producers of a motion picture dare to probe mercilessly into the validity of assumed Christian concepts, and therefore it is hardly surprising that although "Black Narcissus" finds a deeply religious answer to its own questions, American religious groups have unanimously blasted it. The picture places a group of Anglican nuns in a remote part of the Himalayas, where Western morality and religion simply do not exist. Their convent has once been a local emperor's harem, their patron is the conscience-stricken emperor, who pays his subjects to go the convent, and the nuns are a group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/27/1948 | See Source »

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