Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Committee, according to Joseph Blanchard '67, a spokesman for the group. The rest of the money will be put up by interested students, and an attempt to repay the loan by soliciting throughout Winthrop House will be made. "We would really like to make this a house function, rather than something for a select few," Blanchard said...
...with a man-made missile is a prodigy of calculation and performance, and Ranger's builders have learned to turn the trick only after profiting from the experience of heartbreaking failures. Their first five shots fizzled. The sixth was on target, but its TV cameras failed to function. Ranger VII did everything right; its radioed photographs may have told little to amateurs, but they made professionals more familiar than ever with the planet they plan to visit. Then came Ranger VIII, and man got his clearest look yet at his closest planetary neighbor...
...moved to Manhattan and tried to crash "Teen Pan Alley" only to discover that "95% of the music business is heavily infiltrated by morons. If they hadn't been so greedy and vicious, I wouldn't have tried to control them." Fortunately, as Phil puts it, "I function well in a world of hostility...
Oxbridge Words. The "don" in don rag comes from the Oxbridge term for tutor, and the "rag" is an Anglicism, meaning to scold. Scolding is not its only function. The catalogue calls the don-rag "diagnosis and prescription," and students in difficulty are given extra don-rag periods, throughout the term. Dean John S. Kieffer believes that those having the hardest time should receive the tenderest treatment. The sophomore who was charged with flippancy and debunking was considered a bright but complacent boy who could take the harsh words...
Architectural Sciences: A failure of function and proportion, chaos and non-integration...