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Word: functioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miserable when I am cold; I just don't function. But if the President can turn his thermostat back, then I can turn my thermostat back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1973 | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...three years I successfully curried her favor--it was the only way to function. I memorized all the assigned passages, never chewed gum, and wore skirts no shorter than two inches above the knee. I knew she liked me best because she let me fill her water glass. I asked myself the question that Hebe must have asked perennially, "Do I dare fix her drink...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Pax in Terra: Even to You, Miss Davis | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

...best known for the Walsh orthogonal function, which has become an important part of communications theory and the development of theorems which aided construction of turbincs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joseph L. Walsh, Former Professor, Dies in Maryland | 12/19/1973 | See Source »

...visiting committee's responsibility is to acquaint overseers with opportunities to improve the function of a specific area. The committee has no decision-making power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ec Majors Call for Reforms At Visiting Committee Meetings | 12/12/1973 | See Source »

...skipping exams might have made it harder for some professors to give out grades. But abolishing grades to save fuel might not have been such a bad idea either. Like exams and unlike classes, reading periods and vacations, grades neither amuse nor educate. They're important to Harvard's function as a credentials factory, of course, but for most of the university's other functions they're not worth the paper they're printed on--and in a time of a burgeoning newsprint shortage, conserving paper is almost as important as conserving fuel. With a little imagination, the Faculty could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lost Opportunity | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

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