Word: functions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Witness Krivitsky: "Soviet military intelligence has approximately the same function as the same service of other countries. Its unique feature is that it can recruit members of the Communist parties in the countries in which it operates. The leaders of the Communist Party consider it their duty to aid Soviet military intelligence in its work...
...would have met with the same refusal. But the mere fact that an "unwritten law" should crack down particularly on the more politically minded members of the university gives it an unsavory aura. No matter what the origin of this law, no matter what the original purpose, its present function is dangerous. It has almost become a stop-gap to the flow of ideas...
...Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rose up as expected (TIME, Oct. 9) to announce the downfall of Britain's month-old Ministry of Information. After bitter onslaughts in press and Parliament, Mr. Chamberlain intimated that the Ministry's unwieldy staff had been drastically curtailed, its most vital function transferred to a new Press Censorship and News Distribution Department of the Government...
...Very little is known about the function of Vitamin E, found in wheat germ oil, lettuce and tomato oils. Certain it is that lack of this vitamin, as well as vitamin A, damages male reproductive tissues, produces abortion in the female. Although large doses of wheat germ oil have proved effective in stopping habitual abortion in pregnant women, Chemist Henry Albright Mattill, University of Iowa, cautiously concludes that, until more evidence is available, "attempts to produce a market for wheat germ oil among prospective parents generally are to be deprecated...
...flops are spared. "The poet in The Comedy of Errors puffs with unnatural effort. . . . His rhymes . . . rattle like bleached bones." But The Merchant of Venice, in which money and love go hand in hand and uncorrupted, is a "gentlemen's world," inhabited by "creatures whose only function is to sound in their lives the clear depths of human grace." In Henry IV, however, Van Doren considers that Shakespeare came to mastery by discovering that poetry can be better than beautiful; Hotspur, who hates poetry, is a fine poet "out of a hot love far nothing except reality and hard...