Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Bingham, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, both attended for the first time the same function, a musicale at the Yugoslav Legation...
...four Federated Malay States under British "protection," humid, sleepy Selangor is next to the smallest in area, out important because of its tin deposits. Originally the Malays were extremely virile. The Japanese people are descendants of Malay conquerors. Today the chief function of the impotent Malay Peninsula is to supply 40% of the world's tin. Enhanced is the Sultan of Selangor's glory by the fact that Kuala Lumpur, his Capital, serves as the Capital of the Federated Malay States, but this causes the Sultan to be under the thumb of His Britannic Majesty's High...
...himself capable of applying the same system to executives. Ever since he left the Browns in 1917 to become President of the Cardinals, Branch Rickey has been grooming a young assistant named William O. DeWitt, whom he sent through law school. In the Barnes syndicate, William O. DeWitt will function as the Browns' general manager. Placing a protégé with the Browns and getting night-game equipment installed at Sportsman's Park were by no means all Branch Rickey got out of the Browns-to-Barnes deal. For promoting it, his commission was estimated...
Greatly heartened in this vigilance was SEC by the Roosevelt victory. It meant a clear path for the investment trust regulation which SEC will recommend to the next Congress. It was a full-speed signal for SEC's plan for segregating the function of broker and dealer, conferences with the reluctant New York Stock Exchange on that subject being scheduled for this week. And it was apparently considered a general order to SEC for brisker performance on its regular beat patrolling the U. S. securities business...
...little coarse sand of realism seems, in a very real sense, unforgivable, but past experience, confirmed in some measure by recent appointments, proves that it is possible to get this happy combination of proficiencies only in the isolated instance. Experience has shown that if the teacher-scholar fulfills his function ably in two out of three departments, he is a relatively happy choice; further, that today the result of this policy is to attract men who are capable research scholars and to a lesser degree, able graduate teachers, but not capable instructors of undergraduates...