Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon, architect of Manhattan's famed Empire State Building. One of Israel's tallest structures, the pink, ocher and brown marble building consists of two domed wings connected by cloisters to a Jesus Tower, symbolizing the Trinity and the Y's threefold function-developing man's body, mind and spirit. Twelve cypress trees in the eight acres of gardens represent the twelve Apostles, and on the tower are carved, in Aramaic, Jesus' words from John...
...Atlantic to the Urals, with Western Europe serving as a magnet to the rest of the now largely Communist continent. If Western Europe is too closely linked to the U.S. and locked in a tight Atlantic world, argued De Gaulle, it would be unable to serve this centripetal function, since countries such as Rumania, already showing signs of loosening their ties to Moscow, are simply not part of the Atlantic world. It was perhaps the most cogent argument yet offered against the "Atlantic Community" concept...
...qualifications whatever. In 1793, Congress began appointing "discreet persons, learned in the law" to accept bail in federal cases. The qualifications died in 1896, when Congress handed over the appointments to U.S. district judges. Today's 700 U.S. commissioners may be butchers, bakers or candlestick makers. Yet they function as the federal judiciary's committing magistrates, hold preliminary hearings and determine whether accused persons shall be released or held for trial...
After 6-2 center Willie Wolters had put B.C. back in front with a pair of foul shots, the Eagle fast break started to function...
Wilson absolutely must play Scott and Fogley a good part of the time, so that the starting five is not prostrate on the floor of Roberts Center with a few minutes to play. It is better to have the quintet function slightly below their optimum level of performance through most of the game than to have a repetition of the collapse against UConn...