Word: function
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...function and importance of tonsils are much mooted points. Some physiologists claim that the tonsils supply a secretion necessary for the body yet their being cut out causes no unusual symptoms. Others maintain that the tonsils catch bacteria and prevent them getting into the system. Still others show that the tonsils are excellent breeding places for germs. Most agree that their removal does good in many instances, harm...
...opened the shelves, removed red-tape, gave Denver citizens a chance to read. When this was accomplished the new Librarian promptly began working on another radical theory, that the library could cooperate with the schools. He soon opened the first children's department in the country, expanded the function of the library with an art exhibit...
...Georgia, Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, deaf to the bellowings of his diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
...invitation, warned the Negro congressman: "You are now embarking on a perilous course which will, if you continue, disturb relations which have long been amicably settled in the South." Democratic Representative Robert Alexis Green, wearer of flowing Windsor ties, announced that he would never again attend a White House function as long as the Hoovers were there. On the floor of the Senate, South Carolina's Senator Blease, coarsely harangued Mrs. Hoover, had the clerk read into the Congressional Record a vulgar doggerel, concluding...
Separating crude oil into its several constituents is the function of the oil refinery. The crude oil is put into a still and heated. The molecularly lighter substances are given off, beginning with petroleum ether. Then comes natural gasoline, then the naphthas (from which come motor gasolines), then kerosene, then fuel oil, then gas oil, finally lubricating oil. Coke or asphalt are left as a residue.* Efficiency of the process, of course, depends upon the physical fact that the substances mixed in the crude oil come out separately in the distillation. Before the arrival of the automobile, the distillation process...