Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock on the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is now at seven minutes to mid-night. Realists and idealists alike will be clock-watching in the 60's, and it is possible that just this will prevent them from exercising their proper function as sober analysts...
Playing the genial host, the U.S. Senate last week laid out a huge welcome mat for foreign tourists anxious to visit the U.S. Passed by the Senate and sent to the House of Representatives for almost certain approval was a bill establishing a United States Travel Service, whose function will be to persuade more foreigners to visit the U.S. Provided with an initial budget of $5,000,000, the national tourist office will open branch offices abroad, work with private business to simplify tour arrangements and hotel accommodations, entice potential visitors with a "Tour the U.S.A." program...
...Center's function as a meeting house is one of indisputable value. So it seems very puzzling that more U.S. students--who are evidently passionately interested in Peace Corps and international affairs--do not use it. One reason that has been suggested is that not enough people ever hear of the Center and that they would run like rabbits toward it if they had. Yet there is a more frequent complaint: the administration of the Center frowns on political discussion and absolutely prohibits political speeches. Those who advance this objection argue with some reason that they wish to do more...
With Conant, Pappenheimer had developed an improved method for measuring the oxidation potentials of hemoglobin. In addition, he had conducted research on cytochromes, iron-containing enzymes which are closely related to hemoglobin. Cytochromes fulfill an important function in the oxidative processes of metabolism in many organisms. Since diphtherial cytochrome is probably a derivative of coproporphyrin, the dual inhibiting effect of iron suggested that the toxin operates by "impersonating" cytochrome...
...these supporters is Franklin Ford, professor of History. While he concedes that the value of exams may vary from field to field, "in history, the payoff is what you can do with the material." Examinations are good, not so much because they require students to remember everything--"the police function of examinations has been over-emphasized"--as because a good examination gives students "a real intellectual experience." Answering well-formulated examination questions, the student "sits down at the end of a course and follows a theme through a 150-year period. He gets to see the forest as well...