Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report making function of the Council is perhaps its most important activity. Here again over the course of years the custom has grown up of making two or three major reports a year on subjects affecting the College. Thus the House system, the tutorial system, athletics, etc., have been looked into from one angle or another. In many cases these reports have led to positive action by the College, as in the Interhouse athletic investigation this year...
Black as caviar was the shore with crowds squinting through telescopes, among them what British police admitted was the largest collection of foreign spies and counterspies ever to attend a British function. Of the British ships in line they were particularly anxious to see the new fast torpedo-carrying motor boats, the square-sterned anti-submarine net-layers Protector and Guardian and the antiaircraft ships, Coventry and Curlew. Old light cruisers about ready to be decommissioned, these ships have had, their superstructures swept clear and their decks jammed with batteries of the very latest electrophonic anti-aircraft guns and high...
...Plan" by which oil companies sell filling stations to their operators (TIME, Nov. 23), the voluntary chain consists of stores owned and operated by independent merchants but serviced and supplied by a central organization. A. & P. could become a voluntary chain by selling stores to their managers, continuing to function as a wholesaler only...
Yesterday's editorial on Education of Harvard said that the prime function of a University is to teach its undergraduates, and that its second purpose must be a thorough contribution to the knowledge of the world through productive scholarship and intelligent research on the part of its faculty and graduate students. For this reason a balance between these two goals must be achieved, so that one aim does not obscure or act to the detriment of the other. Today at Harvard the art of teaching has been subordinated to the function of research, and the balance between the two should...
...precinct executive who lives with his constituents and does favors for them year in & out, Pundit Frank Kent wrote in The Great Game Of Politics: "He is the bone and sinew of the machine. He is its foundation and the real source of its strength. If he does not function, the machine decays. If he quits, the machine dies. He is the actual connecting link between the people and the organization, and he is the only connecting link-the only man in the machine who has any point of direct contact with the voters, who knows anything about them...