Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coach Stubbs will start his smooth working pair of George Ford and Austie Harding as center and left wing respectively on the first line. Johnny Mechem has joined George Roberts and Neddie Cutter once more and perhaps now this line which went so well last year will start to function again. Joe Patrick will be flanked by Ralph Pope and Win Jameson on the third line...
Finally, consideration should be given to the desirability of distributing the function of tutoring over a larger number of the permanent members of the Faculty. In this way it would be possible to reduce the rapid turnover that would otherwise be necessary, increase the opportunity for promotion for a larger number of young tutors of ability, strengthen the tutorial staff, and improve the quality of tutorial instruction...
...experience of our large cities, many of them more populous than a majority of the States. The record shows that unicameralism is no panacea. It will bring certain desirable results and probably some undesirable ones. More than lopping off one branch is required to make our legislative bodies function as we think they should...
...publish the "inside story" of Dr. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, the garrulous Bronx schoolmaster who projected himself into the Lindbergh kidnapping case and helped Colonel Lindbergh get rid of $50,000 to no avail. A guest at West Falmouth, "Jafsie" had convinced Editor Oursler, who candidly admits his magazine function is primarily to entertain the publie, that he had "new material" to reveal...
...lending power, its vital function, was due to expire Jan. 31. Its great days were gone with the emergency which called it into being. For a year it had been chiefly winding up its affairs, collecting old loans, making few new ones.* But President Roosevelt wanted its lending powers, and those of four subordinate credit agencies,** extended to June 30, 1939. A bill to that effect was reported out by the Senate Banking & Currency Committee...