Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood pressure, all by remote control and radio link. He may feel less sure in his mind as to the state of his psychological being. The curious finger of fate has pointed him out to be hurled into space to make the supreme test as to whether man can function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample from all the billions of men that populate the earth to test for the first time man's ability to go out among the stars. To fail this test would be to fail all mankind...
...earth was interested in aiding Tibet, the God-King opened negotiations at a distance with Red China. In May 1951, a 17-point agreement was signed between the two nations: Red China agreed that Tibet could retain autonomy and promised no change in the Dalai Lama's status, function or power. Tibet surrendered control of its foreign relations to Red China...
...years he served an apprenticeship to the man he called "Lieber Meis-ter." "Form follows function," Sullivan insisted. "Form and function are one, and should be taken into the realm of the spiritual," young Wright replied, and struck out on his own. Soon adventuresome clients began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves...
With Harvard an increasingly "vocational" college aimed at preparing its students for postgraduate work, Monro said, the education it offers has become less suitable for women, whose main postgraduate function will be that of "homemakers...
Bender likewise defended "Rollo," the admission booklet which another Faculty group has criticized for its emphasis on "the outmoded concept of liberal education as the function of the College...