Word: functional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department official said that Elliott "is going, like others, as a member of the party with no specific function to perform." He added that Elliott's visit had been planned "for several days." The trip will last until August...
...barrage of speeches by outside labor leaders, including one by Francis G. Barrett, New York local president of the International Typographical Union, urging one big union for all newspaper employees-editorial, mechanical, printing, etc. But hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft, a function in which the American Newspaper Guild, its constitution notwithstanding, has in a quarter-century betrayed no sustaining interest...
Hoping to deny the Kerala government the money it needs to function, Congress pickets stood in front of tax collectors' offices in nine cities, to prevent anyone from entering or leaving. First in action was the 45-year-old cleaning woman of Trivandrum's district tax office, who threw herself in the dust before the entrance and lay there for 45 minutes before policewomen arrived to lead her away. Then 14 men pickets, sprawled in front of the building, were also dragged away by police. By the end of the first day of mass defiance, 215 demonstrators...
...common agreement the University is "secular" and its teaching function toward the undergraduate demands that religious preconceptions be discounted as much as possible. Gilmore gives an example of the different ways in which a church and a university handle momentous intellectual questions: "Augustine would never say to Pelagius, 'Let us examine your position on grace, Pelagius ...' as Socrates would say to Thrasmymachus, 'Let us examine your position on virtue.' The atmosphere of the University," Gilmore holds, "must be the Platonic rather than the Augustinian...
...best is yet to come, Torroja argues. As engineers work their way intuitively into the art of structure, Torroja is certain that a whole new vocabulary of beauty and function will be discovered and put at the service of architecture, giving it a personality and variety such as the world has never before known...