Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belmont, who endowed her organization and purchased for it three large buildings near the Capitol, believes that the new parliament of women will function as a considerable moral influence on the Federal Congress, by giving example as well as precept...
...three years Obregon has established his Constitution. Mexico is rapidly becoming a happy home for Mexicans. The great haciendas have been split up into small farms. Schools are increasing in numbers and merit. The railroads are beginning to function at a profit. And, for the first time since Madero's wild plunge, the Government of Mexico has produced a budget which fulfills the constitutional requirements. It is by this budget that the first payments are being made to the landlords who were deprived of their land, and also the first payments on the international debt. The Army and Navy...
...hoped that men will look forward more and more to the work of teaching music in the public schools. Inadequately educated teachers and inferior standards of music have for a long time caused this branch of the profession to be looked upon with suspicion. It is the function of the college to rectify this, and Harvard hopes to offer a real service to the cause of music and education by sending out every year well-trained musicians to this work
...hoped that men will look forward more and more to the work of teaching music in the public schools. Inadequately educated teachers and inferior standards of music have for a long time caused this branch of the profession to be looked upon with suspicion. It is the function of the college to rectify this, and Harvard hopes to offer a real service to the cause of music and education by sending out every year well-trained musicians to this work
...accordance with the request of 28 Cardinals, Pope Pius XI began the procedure for the beatification and subsequent canonization of his predecessor, Pope Pius X, by appointing postulators. The function of the postulators is to prove that Pius X performed "an heroic degree" the three theological virtues-faith, hope, charity- and the four cardinal virtues-prudence, justice, courage, temperance. The Abbe Pierami, procurator general of the Valombrosan Benedictines, was elected chief postulator for Italy. It is stated that all the Sacred College living in Rome, with the exception of Cardinal Pompili, who as Vicar of Rome must be the judge...