Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Amendment, said the court, was not written to destroy religion, but to protect religion against government. "It is neither sacrilegious nor antireligious to say that each separate government in this country should stay out of the business of writing or sanctioning official prayers and leave that purely religious function to the people themselves and to those the people choose to look to for religious guidance...
...trial was a painful reminder of the era when Joe McCarthy was riding high, and suspicions, half-truths and innuendoes could ruin a man. As evidence of Faulk's "Communist" sympathies, for instance, Hartnett had cited the fact that Faulk had appeared "at a function" with Composer Earl Robinson, an often blacklisted leftist. That was all the pamphlet had said...
Earlier at the convocation, summer school director Thomas E. Crooks reviewed the traditions of the school, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1971. He said that summer sessions of learning must "continue to preserve their unique function of education...
...work done by Professor Komei Nakayama of Chiba University during World War II's blackout on international reporting of scientific advances. A huskily built, aggressive and imaginative surgeon, Dr. Nakayama reasoned that earlier operations on asthma patients had been based on mistaken theories of how human nerve networks function. He concluded that a minute organ buried in the fork of an artery in the neck, and no bigger than a grain of rice, is an important element in breathing control. Discovered in 1743, it is called the carotid body, or glomus caroticum*; there is one on each side...
...Boun Oum and General Phoumi agreed at the start to give up the key Defense and Interior ministries in return for Prince Souvanna Phouma's promise that all important decisions in these vital areas be made by mutual consent-although no one was sure how a government could function effectively under such conditions. After an hour's talk, the delegates emerged for a breather and a good cigar. In a surprisingly mellow mood...