Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decline in this country. . . . Numbers of my friends felt the same way. We decided to do something about it." By way of doing something about it, Mrs, Hugh Bullock, daughter-in-law of Investment Banker Calvin Bullock, announced in Manhattan the birth of the Academy of American Poets. Prime function of the Academy, as soon as Founder Bullock & friends can raise a fat endowment, will be to patronize eight or ten lucky U. S. poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite. Mrs. Bullock had enlisted as sponsors Mrs. Calvin...
...break the impasse caused by the worthlessness of this question, Oxford has proposed the resolution: "that the first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay." Is this bit of dilettantism the best topic two liberal universities can find to discuss before an international audience? Are Harvard and Oxford so secluded from the world, so steeped in the academic cloister, that they can find no more fundamental problem to argue? Such a triviality may serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold...
...Oxford cable reads as follows: "Impossible Oxford concede. Oxford and BBC propose "The first function of a biographer is to reveal feet of clay. Oxford wishes negative." The NBC added "We are holding up any action on your message of the thirteenth until we get your reaction to this suggestion from Oxford...
...current struggle between the officers of justice and the organized forces of crime, the local police departments, ham-strung by the venality of city bosses and the inferior talents of their men, are unable to function with the essential efficiency and coordination. Offering a meagre salary and little hope of advancement without political influence, the police forces are compelled to recruit from the lower strata of society...
...this group is to function effectively, they must meet their Freshmen often. During the opening months of College, advisors and Freshmen should meet once a week, in order to solve early the problems which inevitably confront the newcomer. After the November Hour examinations, monthly meetings could be held, devoted to the analysis of difficulties which the Freshman finds it impossible to solve without experienced assistance...