Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which gets its quick-lifting power from the U-shaped bands which function on the principle of the Venturi tube, i.e., the faster air flows through a tube with a narrow throat and flaring ends, the lower the pressure drops within the tube. On the plane, the lowered pressure causes a suction, even at low speeds, within the channel's, maintaining the flow of air and preserving lift under conditions that would stall an ordinary plane...
...flags, regional costumes, colored electric lights, street dancing, fireworks. When Strongman Adib Shishekly appeared in his bulletproof Mercedes in the city's Liberation Square, 100,000 happy Syrians roared his praises. The double occasion: 1) first anniversary of his Arab Liberation Movement (the only political party allowed to function in Syria), and 2) bestowal of a new constitution upon this nation...
...Commissioner of Education has an unenviable sort of job. As a member of the Department of Health. Education and Welfare, he has a big title with comparatively little authority. He sponsors worthy projects and collects worthy statistics, but his main function is less to administer than to advise. Last week President Eisenhower nominated a man who should fill the post well: Lee M. Thurston of Michigan...
...British Ambassador Cecil Spring-Rice was prone to reveries, during which he was apt to forget that he was attending an official function and think he was watching a play. When, at Princeton, a bishop intoned a superb benediction, Spring-Rice was so impressed by the "performance" that he brought his hands together with a resounding clap," and was only saved from further applause by Astronomer George Ellery Hale, who nimbly pinned the ambassadorial elbows together from behind...
...Council conceded Congress the right to investigate, but protested the "abuse" of the investigate function, and the destruction of confidence in educational institutions "thorough unsubstantiated charges and blanket indictments." According to the statement, witnesses should be allowed to make "uninterrupted" initial statements of "reasonable length...