Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light Crimson forwards, through greatly outweighed by the Tiger line, played an excellent game. Outstanding was their dribbling and following of the ball. The Harvard backs, never having played as a combination before, did not function smoothly...
...Instead of a philosophy that rests upon the belief that only good could come from the absence of restraint and that the essence of freedom lies in that fact, today's society seems to build upon a faith that it is the function of our economy to assure certain minimum claims to individuals...
...diverse and unsettled natures of Freshmen, combined with the aimlessness of secondary education in general, necessitate advisers. They are a foundation of the desired program for individualized education and their goal is first ascertaining the student's ability and knowledge and then helping him to use them. Their function is not nursemaid nor solely friend, but guide in all academic matters. To show him how to study, to interest him in the University life, to direct him toward a field of concentration; these the advisers should be expected to do. For the emotionally maladjusted they cannot be directly responsible...
Baldwin insisted that the CIO "has no aspirations beyond the goals of collective bargaining and the protection of labor's rights. It supports no political principles except to make the capitalist system function more fairly...
...Sixteen-year-old Queen Farida, who has been breaking precedents right & left since her betrothal, last week led the way in breaking another. With Queen Mother Nazli she watched the opening from the royal loge, the first time female members of the royal family have attended the traditional male function...