Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his patient under anesthetic, he loosens a strip of conjunctiva, about a quarter of an inch wide, from the upper part of the eyeball. This is to function later as a bandage to hold the graft in position until it takes hold of the host...
...Deal's Brain Trust is that the Republican group has been chosen merely to collect information and publish factual results based on research studies, while the Brain Trust is a group which administers a series of preconceived ideas. Only research and fact finding will be the function of the newly formed body
...Council can win itself respect and fulfill its function only by carefully considered, accurate work in raising the general intellectual standard in bringing before the College officials expressions of undergraduate opinion in an effort better to adapt the College to the student's needs, and in managing its administrative functions. Students at Harvard will recognize honest effort and pains-taking labor, not absolutism...
...many glittering and outworn pretensions as shown in the preamble of the new document. Realizing that direct jurisdiction over students was a doctrine as wishful as it was impractical, the framers of the new constitution have settled back to accept a less spectacular but more fitting role. The chief function of the council will be, "to bring before the governing bodies of the College expression of undergraduate opinion in an effort to make College policies better adapted to the needs of the student body...
Before starting on Things to Come, the salient production weakness of London Films had been technical. For this picture, which was made before the Denham studios were ready to function, Producer Korda installed a "Special Effects Department" under Ned Mann. More astounding than the gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...