Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suit unless it fits well; he's a piker compared with the Mount A. Street trio. They won't sell a suit unless it fits the personality of the buyer. Every piece of clothing that goes out of the little brick shops is designed to fill a definite function in the wordrobe of its owner...
Chubby-cheeked Oren Root Jr. had already written to all the Willkie clubs,* -urging them to keep their files and organization intact, stand by for orders. The orders came from Mr. Willkie: "Your function during the next four years is that of the loyal opposition...
...within the age limits of their grades) had kept up their training by correspondence courses, summer training camps, occasional tours of active duty. When the Army began filling out its regular units with reservists, no professional officer could predict with certainty how well doctors, lawyers, policemen and clerks would function as commanders of field units. Last week General Staff officers at Washington surveyed the Organized Reserves' performance, found it good...
Such detective work is not precise enough for Professor Isaac Starr of the University of Pennsylvania. Says he: "The function of the heart is to pump blood, and an engineer investigating a pump which was not working properly would ... begin by estimating the output of the pump directly...
...every "blow" from the heart, after-vibrations warp part of the record. Hence Dr. Starr believes that his machine will never attain "highest precision." Nevertheless it is good enough to: 1) detect early, hitherto invisible cases of heart disease; 2) show the relation between high blood pressure and heart function; 3) differentiate between various types of heart disease...