Word: functionally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...apparatus of The European Union would function at Geneva, parallel with the League. Its "European Conference" would be a deliberative body similar to the League Assembly. For executive the Union would have a "political committee" resembling the League Council but with greater powers. The Union would have a president, automatically drawn in rotation from each member state...
...Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became almost the official organ of the White House during the Wilson Administration. With the War everything changed. Editor Croly naturally espoused the League of Nations-devoted an issue to denouncing its enemies...
...place its name. Later, during the Revolutionary War, the Moravians attracted attention to Bethlehem by taking the lead off the roof of their church, melting it down for Colonial bullets. General George Washington was serenaded by the Moravian Trombone Choir, already an important group of trumpeters whose chief function was to announce festival days, births and deaths, from the church belfry. He also went to the church, listened to the choir...
...senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant (Story of Philosophy}, Lewis Browne (This Believing World), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Story of Mankind), Critic Notch has less...
...Supreme Court is to retain its function as the moulder of the Constitution in eventual accordance with the popular mandate, it is essential to appoint to it men of high quality and broad outlook. For example, the men who may one day sit in judgment on the Volstead Act ought to have in view impending disruption and obvious corruption as well as intricacies in wording of the law itself. And Judge Parker, from all that can be discovered, seems neither broadminded nor first-rate, and although certainly it is unfair for partisan purposes to criticize appointments to this tribunal certainly...