Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson. The Queen connived to preserve an illusion for Diana Hopkins, 7, suggested that the child see her first in her tiara for the Embassy State dinner. After that function (where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were escorted to the destroyer Warrington at Sandy Hook. Hundreds of Britishers on chartered steamers missed them as they sailed across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen...
Last week Biologist John Robert Raper of Harvard turned up with something new under the scientific sun-a clear demonstration of the function in plants of hormones which are not growth hormones but sexual. The host: Achlya ambisexualis, a minute water fungus which Dr. Raper discovered some time ago in the Charles River...
...prerogative to tar and feather the teaching staff -- typographically speaking--is a healthy thing, and the most recent essay in that direction, Mr. Bunde's philippic in the Progressive, manifests unusual insight not only into problems of pedagogy but into the larger question of a university's true function. Mr. Bunde, by and large, has done a good job, but the effectiveness of his criticism is blunted by over-indulgence in harsh and intemperate personalisms. There are ways of getting at the same end without resorting to personal abuse...
After this function the King and Queen retired to the Citadel apartment surrendered to them by Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, who is benched while the King is in Canada. There the King changed from his Admiral's rig to cutaway and silk topper (the Queen not bothering to change) for the first of a long & indigestible series of official luncheons and dinners. This one, at the Château Frontenac, served up lobster tails, grilled breast of chicken and a Grand Marnier soufflé which neither the King nor the Queen accepted. This instance of royal distaste...
...function of that day was a convocation of Parliament to hear the Royal assent to a series of bills (a U. S.-Canada trade agreement, a wheat subsidy, the Dominion budget), something brand-new to Canada and a prerogative of the King-Emperor almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep...