Word: functionality
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Negroes of Push 'Em Clubs. Their reputed function: each member must take off one afternoon a week, spend it on the downtown streets jostling and pushing white folk...
...capsule theory of life and its assumption that any piece of writing can be improved by extracting every seventh word, like a tooth. We have occasionally been embarrassed to see our stuff after it has undergone alterations. . . . Mostly, however, we object to the Digest's indirect creative function, which is a threat to the free flow of ideas and to the independent spirit...
British and Canadian troops in Italy have been using an odd-looking, pipelike weapon vaguely reminiscent of the U.S. bazooka, and performing much the same function as a shattering short-range buster of tanks, armored cars or pillboxes...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant dismissed the notion of teaching the humanities to "any considerable portion" of the 10,000,000 veterans. Since returned soldiers "will be in a hurry," Harvard will function all year round. Veterans uninterested in or inept at "book learning" may get a year of vocational training leading to industrial jobs...
...Parents and educators will claim that students' vocabularies will not be expanded if they read texts written in less than a thousand words. But vocabularies can be broadened, he maintains, by having children transpose selections of regular English into Basic, a process that requires a full knowledge of the function of each word...