Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held at 3¾, but the export rate was upped from 3¾% to 5%. Reductions on British shipments, underwriters pointed out, reflected the belief of marine experts that the British convoy system had begun to function with more efficiency. But on shipments to and from Black Sea and Baltic Sea ports rates were quoted on application only...
...further evidence of President Conant's willingness to comply with the suggestions in the "Committee of Eight" Report, the University announced yesterday the appointments of Professor Graustein and Associate Professor Buck as Assistant Deans of Faculty. Enlargement of the function and personnel of this office has long been urged as a step toward alleviating problems of tenure and promotion among the faculty. Instead of being a mere channel through which the departmental recommendations were submitted to the President, the Office should now become a positive force in the system of appointment...
...chief function of the Office will be to check on departmental recommendations for appointments. Thus much of the favoritism and prejudice that play so large a part in this system at present will be eliminated. The Dean's Office should now be able to collect supplementary information on candidates for promotion. It should be able to obtain unbiased, expert appraisal of their publications. And, perhaps most important of all, it may have the chance of knowing personally the men in various departments. In a word, the Dean's Office should become, as the Committee hoped it would, "a centralized file...
...infiltration forces found the way, France's 70-ton "rolling fortresses" next trundled forth, followed by more infantry. Main function of these monsters, hurling 3-in. shells, is to wipe out all remaining "pockets" of resistance and ultimately carry the attack to the main defenses...
Paris has a theoretical censorship, even in peacetime. Last week this censorship began to function actively, but dispatches came through with fair speed...