Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational and missionary equipment. Not so simple is the merging of church organizations. The Pittsburgh conferees urged time and latitude for this process. The Presbyterian subsidiaries of the new Church might retain their "sessions," the Reformed subsidiaries their "consistories." Consistories and sessions differ more in name than in function. Presbyteries or "classes" (larger groupings which include sessions and consistories, respectively) in a particular region need merge organization, equipment and endowment only if they wish...
...physiological function is as an aperitif, an appetizer, to a palate which perhaps is jaded; therefore its composition must be such as to give a fillip to the appetite, it must be piquant, to generate hunger...
...with the Harvard Liberal Club in its activities, and plans to attend the lectures which are being organized by the Liberal Club. There is no desire, however on the part of the Socialists according to Melish, to interfere or compete with the Liberals who are fulfilling a worth while function in the University...
Until we teach them and educate them how to live so that their brains will continue to function for the years added to the bodies' life, there is little use in increasing the life span."-Dr. Mayo...
...Adolescence is a misnomer. There is no phase of development which delimits the state of adolescence unless it be the sudden supervention of those phenomena associated with the blossoming of the sex function. But this occurs over a wide range of years. . . . Man is the only mammal with a prolonged period of development which may roughly be called the age of adolescence." At birth a rat has a physiological age equivalent to a nine-year-old child. "The elephant, in spite of its huge bulk, seems to pass through the successive phases of development to adulthood at approximately the same...