Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even lower under this enormous new load. Declared Postmaster General Brown, rejecting the proposal: "There is no provision of law authorizing the acceptance of unaddressed matter. . . . [It] would place upon the Postal Service the responsibility of selecting the particular individuals to whom the matter is to be delivered, a function clearly the duty of the sender . . . and would undoubtedly lead to complaints of all kinds from senders concerning nondelivery, duplication, etc. The plan would subject the patrons of the Postal Service to an avalanche of advertising matter of all de- scriptions and the mails would be flooded...
Equally "special" are low-boiling-point fuels which vaporize easily, facilitate quick starting in winter time (but which do not produce more power), and the knock-reducing fuels. Function of the latter is to eliminate the metallic clanks which old motors make when straining on hills. The puzzling question of what constitutes a knock-reducing fuel was perhaps solved by an announcement last week telling of the work of the co-operative steering committee...
Lost Gods (Epic). The lecture that goes with this travelog is not particularly good and the photography is only fair, but the material itself is so fascinating that Lost Gods becomes one of the best current illustrations of the educative function of the cinema. It is a record of the expedition, supervised by the Algiers Museum, of the travels in Libya of Archeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, whose excavations are made conceivable to non- archeological audiences by the explanation that he is looking for the golden tomb of the White Goddess of the Sahara. Some of the things...
...genuinely conservative estimate of the toll the rackets take from the purse of the American nation every year." Only Saps Work is his survey of U. S. racketeering, with particular consideration of New York. He found that Chicago's rackets get more publicity, New York's function more smoothly. "So adroitly are the rackets administered in the laundry and dry-cleaning industries, and the green vegetables, fruit, fish and ice trades that they are invisible to the naked...
...machine, on the market next week, will doubtless throw scores of color matchers out of work. It will perform their function with more exactness, will cost less and, biggest advantage of all, it will not depend on daylight for its accuracy. The heart of the machine, invented by New York University's able young physicist Dr. Harold Horton Sheldon, is a photoelectric cell...