Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dominated the news since.") But at its current price of ten cents, Tocsin's forum will never reach beyond a very select minority. All undergraduate pamphleteers would do well to remember that they are writing for a relatively well-informed audience. Goading the masses is not a proper Tocsin function, though urging concerned Harvard students to goad them may well...
...reasons are manifold, and the process has been gradual, a function of both the U.S.'s long social conscience and its incredibly productive economy. Thanks to better medical care, there are fewer orphans today. Few mothers die in childbirth; fathers live longer. Even if the father dies, social security payments enable a mother to keep her children with her. Furthermore, almost any average childless couple that wants a child can afford one. Result: more couples clamoring for babies than there are babies to adopt-and the highest rate of adoption of any nation in the world...
Without Ohiri, the Crimson passes to the wings more often, and relies on them to carry the ball downfield. And the wings and insides are expected to shoot, a purely incidental function when Ohiri is in the game. With this system in effect, Seamus Malin, Eb Klufio, John Thorndike, and Al Chang accounted for the varsity's scoring against Columbia...
...Popov, a senior scientific worker at the Lebedev Institue in Moscow, a research institution similar in function to large government and private laboratories in this country, arrived in Cambridge two weeks...
...authoress of the post-card that sparked the demonstrations is a girl of upper middle-class background who, as her father informed the Boston press, had not a single clue--in terms of personal experiences--as to what underdeveloped conditions of life are like. No doubt, it was the function of myself and other members of the faculty staff that trained her and her colleagues, to provide some understanding of these conditions; and as far as I am concerned, we did so as best we could...