Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground. Twelve times an executioner with a plaited bull whip laid on until quivering flesh and muscles came off in strips and the bones of the black man's carcass gleamed white in Death. After the twelfth horror, Harar's market place resumed its normal function, jammed with horse bargainers who ignored a pack of mangy dogs sniffing hungrily at bloody spots on the cobbles which they had almost licked clean...
...voice of The Motor rose above the twitter and gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
Though they dominated the play straight through the game the Yardlings found themselves, in the fourth period one goal down and ten minutes to go. Here the attack finally began to function, with Phil Hammond, John Sinnott, and Captain Dick Lowis clicking out three goals in rapid succession...
...Olympic Games come off in Berlin as arranged, the event will be hailed as a wonderful Nazi demonstration and triumph". The President of the Amateur Athletic Union in the New York Times of October 21 points out that "the training of athletes for the Olympics Games has become a function of the German Government under the direction of "Tschammor-Osten", an appointee of Hitler. Tschammor-Osten through the "Sports Service" of the German News Bureau announced that in the future, "Winners of athletic contests in the Third Reich may be only those who master National Socialist idealogy and who make...
...afternoon will be not Brown but Harvard. There will be five more or less new men in the lineup today and it is any one's guess how such a drastically altered unit will function against a major opponent...