Word: function
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...Objective. Brookings was never quite that under its scholarly first president, Harold G. Moulton. It granted only 74 doctorates before dropping the program in 1936. But its economic research had a profound effect on national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings experts clarified and defined nearly every function of Government, from Indian affairs to forest control. Later they deflated many New Deal ideas, notably the theory that only pump-priming could make the economy grow. During World War II, Brookings went into everything from manpower allocation to postwar reconversion. In 1947, when Congress scrapped on foreign aid proposals...
...Harvard's policy on recruiting by coaches," it says, "is essentially that this is not their normal function...
Criticizing those who judge all novels against a preconceived moral pattern, Wilson urged that the only quality that one can reasonably demand of a novel its that it reflect a highly personal, passionate response to life, that it be vitally concerned with the fortunes of individual human begins. The function of the novel, he argued, is not to effect reforms or make a sick society well...
...everyone by its unimperialistic character. And, in itself, the withdrawal is laudable. But it is also insignificant these bases are almost totally useless, large portions are rented out to local peasants, and the only one which is really practical--it tracks missiles launched in Florida--will continue in this function on a more limited scale. The withdrawal is embarrassing because of its blatant omission why not Guantanamo...
Like a Surgeon. Although an accompanist should be a partner, he is also, says Ulanowsky, likely to function as "part policeman and part nursemaid." (But, adds Soprano Erika Koth cryptically: "An accompanist is no lover.") Even as incendiary a singer as Maria Callas scrupulously follows the advice of her pianist, Italy's Antonio Tonini, in questions of interpretation. "Tonini pleases me," says she, "because he is an implacable torturer who makes me repeat the same phrase 20 or more times. He has always been for me like an expert surgeon who digs around in one's innards until...