Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the football team outplayed Andover for the greater part of the game, their attack failed to function within the Andover 20-yard line, and the Schoolboys took the ball on downs...
...Secretary of War was received by the Son of Heaven, lunched sumptuously with the America-Japan Society, was received by the Japanese War Ministry, War Council and War Office at a fete declared to have been "the most impressive military assemblage seen at a Tokyo social function in years." Throughout it all Mr. Dern created what U. S. correspondents called "an excellent impression" with his "informal but noncommittal eloquence...
...leading college band in this country, will make its Harvard debut in the ballroom of the Copley-Plaza Hotel on the occasion of the Harvard-Dartmouth Ball to be held Friday October 25th. Held for many years on the eve of the annual football game, this function has become traditionally as important to Harvard undergraduates as the game itself...
...company took over all assets and contracts of David 0. Selznick Productions, announced it had no stock to sell the public. It will produce, on United Artists' lot where Pioneer Pictures will also function, some half dozen films a year at an average of $500,000 each. First on the list is Little Lord Fauntleroy, with Freddie Bartholomew,* starting Nov. 15, to be followed by an effort in Technicolor. Producer Selznick plans to bring Author Somerset Maugham to Hollywood. Directors George Cukor and John Cromwell, Actor Ronald Colman are now under contract...
18th Month. Can cross his feet and stand on one foot; can use his handkerchief properly; memory begins to function as in the adult mind...