Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had abused their historic function as guiding intelligence of the German people by subjecting it to that evil thing-Nazi totalitarianism. The Frankenstein they had helped to power, their police spy in the absurd trench coat, Adolf Hitler, had at last split their solid ranks...
Both he and Coningham soon agreed on a further principle which put them ahead of the German tactics: though a tactical air force must be integrated with the ground forces, it must not be tied in piecemeal lots to ground units. Its function was massed, theater-wide blows, deep penetrations to fill the gap between tactical and strategic operations. Tactical planes were even used to cut off the enemy's Mediterranean Sea traffic...
...chosen to assist in the Council's function of representing the student body and administering its financial matters, six are here at present under naval college training...
This is the whole function of the Fund-a reserve of foreign exchange from which to borrow when normal sources of exchange run short. In order to make it work, those who are losing must be kept from shoving in more (and perhaps less valuable) chips while they borrow the good chips of the winners. The Fund pro poses to do this...
Both institutions will come into existence when countries having 65% of the agreed-on subscriptions have notified the U.S. that they have ratified the plan. Bank and Fund will not begin to function actively until "major hostilities" in Europe have ceased. Other nations will be admitted on terms to be agreed upon...