Word: functionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deploying army in blue had an order of the day: "Our prime function is the protection of life and property and the maintenance of law and order, and this function will be carried out against any persons, regardless of age, who willfully and maliciously thumb their noses at law and order and who persist in thinking that the laws of the jungle can be transplanted to the streets of New York." The order's author: 51-year-old Stephen Patrick Kennedy, the hard-boiled career cop who is the 25th police commissioner of the City of New York...
...weekly Yard punch is undoubtedly the most characteristic social function. "The Summer School drinks about 600 gallons of punch," Miss Williston estimated...
...function of helping prevent war and of furthering a just peace has become of transcendent importance . . . The armed forces have become, indeed, great shields to guard the peace." One helpful quality, concluded Ike, is "a healthy and lively sense of humor ... I hope your own sense of humor is sufficiently active to assure your tolerance of the thoughts I have placed before you, even if you feel no compelling reason for pondering them...
...addition to the clubs, the high school itself provides a multitude of social function. From the back-to-school dance to the Senior Prom, there is hardly a week without a dance, class play, or big sports event...
...other hand, Scarsdale's function as essentially a preparatory institution is one of the factors which contributes to its high standards when compared with most public high schools. Opportunities for honors work are offered to the brighter students from the ninth grade on. The school curriculum has included "honors" sections for more than twenty years, and the able student has the chance to do more concentrated work in English, Mathematics, American and World History, and foreign languages. In addition, a full program of Advanced Placement courses is available for qualified senior. These courses cover material equivalent to what an introductory...