Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard dominated play for the first four minutes of the game as the Tech defense could not clear the ball. Wood and Gunnoe each scored an unassisted goal but the Engineers began to function, and Matson scored twice to even the score. Ames tallied perhaps the prettiest goal of the game after a long run at 11:40, but came up limping. Tech's Bob Beardsley tied it seconds later, and then Mandle gave M.I.T. its short-lived lead...
...city-room pecking order at most big dailies, the real estate editor ranks somewhat below the writer who covers high school sports; his main function is to supply a few columns of editorial top-dressing for the real estate ads. Albert Jedlicka of the Chicago. Daily News is a glittering exception. With a yearlong, still-continuing series of stories in the tradition of the hard-digging reporter-detective, Jedlicka has played a major role in exposing a mortgage-financing scandal that has rocked the Chicago real estate and building industries (see U.S. BUSINESS...
This program would still function as a substitute for an attack on the underlying problem: how to move the marginal farmer off the land. It makes littles sense to keep him there at a subsistence level. Yet, with chronic excess unemployment in the economy at large, it is reasonable to ask, where...
Only those whose "consciences did not function automatically," dared judge events for themselves, Miss Arendt said. Their choice not to participate was simply founded on the desire to "live at peace with themselves," she added...
...have an overtone of condescension that is often, as in this case, unjust. A good popularization takes facts or interpretations already known to the experts and makes them comprehensible and interesting to the lay reader. If the subject dealt with is of any importance, the popularizer performs an invaluable function--war is too important to be left to the generals...