Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there for some time to come. I want to make sure that there will be more TIMES. To me there is no simple way to let people like Miss Rosenberger-in whose hands the future of Germany (and lots more) rests-see what makes our kind of American democracy function. If she and her friends get from TIME-as I have in the past 18 years-a little better understanding and perspective of events and a broader knowledge of people, it will be not only a liberal education but also their most exciting reading moments for a long time...
Toward the Welfare State. On the pediment of the east face of the Supreme Court Building are some marble figures illustrating the fable of the hare and the tortoise, the moral of which was "Slow & steady wins the race." The inference is that the court's function is to plod along at a slow, safe pace, with proper judicial warnings to a sometimes harebrained, galloping Senate & House. At this moment in history, however, it was the conservative Senate & House who were plodding along, passing no broad social legislation...
...because the body has almost no defenses. The body creates no antibodies against cancer as it does against diphtheria or typhoid. It builds no tissue walls to confine the destructive cells. It feeds them well, allows them to grow unchecked, and dies helplessly when they disrupt some vital function...
...Germany; he was liberated there by the Allies and went to Switzerland. The Brussels Parliament installed his brother Charles as Regent and advised Leopold not to come back. Last week Charles was signing documents which began: "I, Charles, Regent of Belgium because the King is unable to function due to enemy action . . ." Unhampered by enemy action, Leopold was in Paris for a few days of tournament golf...
...Redlining, he chucked his job and went over to the Post. A graduate of Columbia, an ex-G.I. and the father of two, Newsman Wechsler has written three books (including a biography of John L. Lewis). His credo for the Post: "It was said long ago that the function of a newspaper is to 'comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.' Too many newspapers have forgotten the words . . . We propose to remember...