Word: functioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislature's criteria for teachers. Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, said he feared the bills would curtail free discussion of ideas and create an atmosphere of fear in the classroom. A Crimson editorial, calling the Iannell proposals "inherently unsound," claimed that universities can only function "when they are free to set their own standards for the conduct of their faculty...
...father's life. Hamlin's normally powerful voice lowers to a reverent tone as he tells the story. "My dad had had his right lung removed because of cancer and six unsuccessful operations on his left lung. I was talking with [eardiologist] Dr. Powell at a D.U. club function, and he referred me to Dr. Herman Grillo, the leading bronchial tracheologist...
...drew one hiss from the audience when he questioned the effectiveness of some students who may intend to go directly to work in underdeveloped countries, giving themselves entirely to missionary or social work: "Unless you feel a true call to that sort of work, you probably won't function effectively in it very long...
...long time now, the chief ceremonial function of Memorial Day has been simply to inform Americans that their summer has begun. Of course, residual touches of drum-thumping Americana still cling to the occasion-men in deep middle age parading up and down the holiday, strutting the flag. It is a formal rite of remembering, but remembering at a major distance. In their V.F.W. or American Legion caps the old soldiers have long since made peace with their generation's war. They have worn their memories of combat smooth with the retelling. They have grown easy with what they...
...muscle cells, an atherosclerotic plaque develops and the artery narrows. Platelets continue to congregate and may eventually help create a clot that completely blocks blood flow. Says DeWitt Goodman of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: "There is good reason to think if you interfere with platelet function you might reduce the chance of heart attack or stroke, but it is not 100% proved...