Word: function
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...Masters joined Senior Tutors, leading College administrators, and members of the Committee in discussing the relative merits of courtyard and apartment-type construction, and reached general agreement that architecture makes an important difference in the function of the House...
Leap Overland. In theory, the Mohawks would sweep low over the battle area to seek out the enemy troops. Guided by information from the Mohawks, the U.S. soldiers organized into the Air Cavalry Troop (so named because its function is similar to the deep penetration and surveillance missions of oldtime horse brigades) would leap over rivers, hills and forests in their choppers, land in strategic striking spots. As they attacked, the aircraft would support them with airborne firepower. The whole operation would be directed by the troop commanders, thus providing close air-ground coordination in battle...
...Founded in 1957 by the "Big Eleven" (Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, and Wisconsin), the CIC, comprised of one representative from each school, meets periodically to consider possibilities of co-operation. A small professional staff, located at Purdue, "implements committee decisions and functions as a catalyst." As a "kind of communications center," the CIC's function, as stated in the 1962 Annual Report, is "to aid member universities in improving educational and public services by adding strength to strength, as well as to avoid excess costs by minimizing duplication." An administrative agency...
There are four parts to Adams House; three of them are attractive, comfortable--relics of an era when the function of a building was still good living. Two of the three are Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall, the former quietly Tudor, the latter faintly Gothic, both of them built around the turn of the century to provide elegant Gold Coast young gentlemen with elegant young apartments (F. D. Roosevelt '04 lived appropriately in Westmorly South, now B-entry). The third part is Apthorp House, Master Reuben A. Brower's official home, where he entertains and serves tea to students, guests...
...thing as a relaxed blind date," a girl observed. The unpopularity of blind dates and the general contempt for mixtures make many girls who are socially inclined feel that having a steady boyfriend is almost imperative at Mount Holyoke. One girl took a rather cynical view of the function of boys in Mount Holyoke's world: "Boys are primarily a means for getting out of Holyoke for a weekend...