Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...other function the Party has served: as a more or less accurate gauge of the country's fevers. In 1912, when the U. S. was beset by restless Labor, debt-ridden farmers and a discontented West, the vote for a Socialist for President shot up. Up it shot again in 1932, with the persistent depression. In periods of complacency (1928, 1936), the Socialists are nowhere. Last week, as the U. S. shivered with war chills, ached with unemployment, the Socialist Party convened to adopt a platform, nominate a President, take the U. S. temperature...
...great number of hypertensive patients, Dr. Goldblatt discovered choked kidneys similar to those he had produced in dogs. Strangely, in many cases kidney function was undisturbed...
...students at St. John's are excited by their work and by the revival of the debt-ridden little college that almost died. They sharply reject the adjective "experimental" as applied to them, and consider the New Program as "the re-establishment of the original college with its original function of intellectual freedom and discipline...
...back door for a cup of coffee, left after one sitting and never came back. Artist Friedman put him on canvas in his faded overcoat and battered hat, with one eye out of focus. He spent most time painting the hand, made it the symbol of a working function that society had dis carded...
...pedagogical premise of CBS's Adult Education Board is that radio's function as an educator is to stimulate rather than lecture. Two years ago this month CBS began a series called Americans at Work, examining and dramatizing a likely selection of the 31,000 U. S. occupations. To date, Americans at Work (Tuesdays, 10:15 to 10:45 p.m. E. S. T.) has kibitzed sandhogs, dynamiters, firemen, cops, cranberry growers, submariners, teachers, cartoon animators, the U. S. Marines, the Coast Guard ice patrol, test pilots, census takers, even game wardens...