Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widener Library has often been characterized as one of the most efficient research plants in this country. Whether or not it deserves this praise, Widener's function, among others, is to provide adequate material for scholars who would delve into the past and collect material for future scholars. In seeking to fulfill this function the library subscribes to and keeps on file a number of supposedly representative periodicals. It does not subscribe to a paper directed by the Hearst policy...
...grouped the nine corps areas into four army areas: (1) North Atlantic States, (2) Upper Mississippi Basin, (3) Southern & Southwestern States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over the broader "theatre of operations." Designed to "place emphasis upon instant availability of a maximum proportion of existing forces," the Four-Army Plan...
...CRIMSON seen fit to report President Conant, instead of merely splashing spectacular excerpts over its front page, an analysis at this late date would indeed be superfluous. The truth of the matter is that the CRIMSON in its hunt for headlines has so far abnegated its critical function for fear of offending University Hall, that they dare not present even a serious analysis. The Goose must not be embarrassed when she lays the golden eggs; the editors obligingly veil their eyes...
...advent of an air attack in its present form was unforeseen when our existing battleships were designed, but their anti-aircraft armament is being increased to enable them to perform their primary function...
...strike went over splendidly. Newsworthy were Cuban enterprises that continued to function. The all-important sugar mills, with their season's grinding half done, ignored the strike but their activity was menaced when the railways stopped. Two open-shop Havana newspapers kept publishing. Soldiers, marines, police and strikebreakers ran a few street cars, the radio, telegraph and the main Havana postoffice, the docks, power plants, water works and tax collection offices. That was all. Most Government departments, which President Mendieta had filled with the supporters of his onetime allies, struck. The staff of a Havana insane asylum walked...