Word: functional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is satisfied that Father Walsh and his Church have just grievances against Soviet Russia. But, however much it may sympathize with, any outcry, TIME'S sole function is to tie record of facts as straight as it can. If the Soviet again reverts to savageries, TIME can be counted on to record them. Not only so, but TIME will continue to record trustworthy reports of any sort of religious persecution...
...like can inculcate a reading knowledge. The present system takes the student's attention from the studies where his interests lie to the least stimulating courses offered by the College, at the very period when the difficult transition from school to university makes intellectual awakening to first function of the latter. The result is intellectual nausea instead. The first step in curing this disease is to abolish the language requirements...
...passing of the Smoker go unnoticed by the members of the class on the grounds that "it would save trouble." It was the opinion of the officers, according to a usually reliable authority, that the Sophomores as a body would not notice the omission of the annual class function if it died unannounced...
...inclined to agree. To our mind, the only possible useful function of such a questionnaire is to determine the present extent of law-breaking. The fact that about one-third of the students favor enforcement, one-third repeal, and one-third modification is of little importance. Students in this matter are not in a position to pass critical judgment upon the present legislation. They strike out wildly, vote for repeal when they have no conception of the effects of repeal, vote for modification without any picture of the legislation to be substituted, vote for enforcement without consideration of the paradox...
...stand these continual shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street. . . . If trade unions were allowed to function without the relentless opposition of large employers, they could tide their members over seasonal unemployment...