Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...color makes for tolerance and understanding. Extremism and the black-and-white world of the political slogan are reduced to a happy minimum. National as well as international issues nowadays are as involved as an Italian spaghetti and have to be elaborately unravelled before they can be understood. This function is admirably served by the Political Union, not only because it gives voice to all attitudes in fair and unemotional debate, but also because it has the ear of a sympathetic student public...
...succeed in building 2,100,000 tons this year-probably the maximum, this would mean a net loss of nearly 3,000,000 tons -or about 23% of the 13,000,000-ton fleet now supplying Britain. It would reduce the effective tonnage of ships engaged in that essential function to little more than 3,000,000 tons. At this rate the British would not be licking the problem ; it would be licking them...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles...
...active training, the handful of veteran tankers in the Army had done a stupendous job of schooling raw men, turning them into instructors for still greener recruits. Result: considering the equipment at hand, the commanders of the First and Second Divisions last week could say that they could "function in any emergency." But not for long: as with all the U.S. Army of 1941, an armored division is no sooner trained than it must be broken up to form and school fresh outfits...
...defense against such a bombardment is a function of the U.S. Army Air Corps. Last week, having completed its organization plan, the Air Corps began a careful process of informing the public what it was all about. The object was, without frightening anybody, to teach citizens that if raids should come they must stay where they are, each man going about his own duties while the Air Corps, with organized civilian aid, does its job of repelling attack...