Word: functioned
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...