Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When final arguments were completed last week, Judge Roy W. Harper warned the jury that "it is not your function to pass on the relative merits of Communism or capitalism, or any other issue . . . The crime charged is a conspiracy [to advocate and teach forceful overthrow of the Government]." Two hours and 15 minutes later, the jury was back with a verdict: all defendants guilty. The conviction brought to 72 the number of Communist leaders tried and convicted under the Smith...
...Department of justice, which the Attorney-General heads, has rarely been used as a political bureau. Its function is to enforce federal statutes and to represent the Government in court. But Brownell has been the most political Attorney-General yet. Part of the reason for this lies in the man. Ever since boyhood, when his hobby was collecting campaign buttons, everything Brownell has touched has turned to politics. He became the chief strategist for New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey back in the 1930's, when the two fought against the "white-shoe" faction of the New York County...
...protest states, "The (Green Feather) organization assumes the privileges of an accredited undergraduate organization for a few weeks at best, then disappears; for it will have no function or purpose when the temporary agitation dies down and will never be called upon to assume the responsibilities of a regular-undergraduate organization...
...Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments . . . It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal...
...laboratory will attempt to discover the function of trace elements copper, zinc, titanium and tin in cell metabolism. Past workers in biochemistry have discovered that in the white blood corpuscles of leukemia patients an abnormally low amount of zinc is present, while in liver disease, heart ailments, Hodgkins disease, and certain types of psychosis the copper concentration of the blood serum increases...