Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hero. They do not forget that he has liberated them from the hated Tojo government, a name which has a sound similar to that of Hitler in Germany, and they have not forgotten that he has given them a constitution which is democratic yet does not remove the symbolic function of the emperor. This basic feeling was in no way changed by the recent events, but there was some resentment (and in Americans even more than in Japanese) about the informed, over-simplified American official interpretation, as well as newspaper versions giving the impression that there is only one cause...
William L. Saltonstall '49 substituted for his father, U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, who had to cancel his plans to speak at the rally. Mr. Saltonstall said that his father's seniority enabled him to function more effectively than a junior senator could...
When 19-year-old Ida Rosenthal set up a dress business in New Jersey in 1906, less than a year after emigrating from Minsk, the brassiere had a very different function than it has now. After Society Girl Caresse Crosby designed a brassiere in 1913 (it took its name from the French word for a child's undershirt), it was worn as a sort of chest-height cummerbund to flatten and camouflage women for the boyish look. When Mrs. Rosenthal moved into New York and set up a dress shop with a woman partner in 1922, she noticed that...
...underlined the importance of maintaining the missile program which has produced the Atlas long-range ballistic missile. He also advocated multilateral foreign aid with emphasis on medical and educational help to underdeveloped countries. "We must also negotiate for disarmament and support the United Nations and its function as a vital instrument for preventing war," Colson declared...
...keep his inventories tight, move fast when he wants to make a change. In the past, says Paradiso, inventory tended to lag about six months behind sales; today it can be adjusted in a matter of days. "What happens now to inventory will be almost a direct function of what happens to sales...