Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Norman Gray, a spokesman for the MDC, said yesterday that the function of the relief line would be to divert storm and sewer drainage from the Charles down to a new water treatment plant in Boston...
Dunster House also recently instituted "milk and cookies," a long-standing Radcliffe tradition. The purpose of this function is to allow women in the House to socialize and get to know one another...
...library hours at Lamont, we find it very discouraging that such budgetary priorities still exist to the disadvantage of probably the great majority of Harvard undergraduates. It seems obvious that, after the teaching facility, the college's second priority should be the library, especially since it is a major function of Lamont to provide reserved reading materials for almost all undergraduate courses. It seems absurd that this center of our academic life should suffer at the hands of such things as free distribution of toilet paper to freshmen, not to mention other substantial but less compelling drains on the Corporation...
...Competition Myth. The better of the two papers is the Phoenix. As Publisher Missner sees it, most newspapers are merely '"reactive," reporting news when institutions release it. The function of a weekly, he says, is "to find out and explain how local institutions work, and what the people who run them are like. And that can involve anything from how to buy meat at Haymarket to explanations about how government surveillance operates." In three recent issues, Phoenix published a long, comprehensive report on real estate profiteering and the resulting urban problems in Cambridge. As Phoenix sees it, the villains...
...couple of days before their visits but did not want to be pregnant. About 70% reported that coitus had taken place at a time in their menstrual cycle when conception was likely. Nearly 90% had used no contraceptive means, or said that the device used had failed to function properly...