Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Europeenne has an even more important function. Through it, Schneider-Creusot reaches out to control 230 armament and allied enterprises OUTSIDE France. The greatest of THESE concerns is that glittering jewel in the crown of principal Ideal State that came into being in 1919 as the reseult of the self-determination of oppressed peoples. The state is Czechoslovakia, and its jewel is Skoda...
...becomes important is when, for no known reason, it grows big, causes a peculiar hoarse breathing, a continuous choking sensation (which may end in actual suffocation), or that strange condition called status lymphaticus whose slender, soft-skinned, sexually immature victims may at any moment drop dead. Obscure though the function of the thymus is, it occurs in all creatures from fish to man. In man, it shrivels as adolescence wanes, becomes only a vestige with age. Dr. Rowntree, following the lead of an old friend, Dr. Adolph Melanchton Hanson of remote Faribault, Minn., injected rats with extracts of cattle thymi...
...buttressed his argument with quotations from that sturdy champion of laissez-faire, the late famed William Graham Sumner ("It is not the function of the state to make men happy") but trumpeted: "I find difficulty in consenting to the abandonment of a scheme of government which for 150 years has made us happier and more prosperous than the people of any other nation...
...University such as Harvard, where a comparatively large portion of the student body is frankly desirous of having as good a time as possible, it may be argued justifiably that the function of stimulating and inspiring students is more important than research. Certainly Harvard's greatest instructors are those who instill in the student a desire to research on his own part. There are all too many instructors who are fully versed in their fields, who are fully versed in their fields, who are capable of genuine contribution, and who present their knowledge in an orderly manner, without, however, making...
...Republican Party organization is completely available for a function which looks wholly to the future. This is a highly important fact. The office of chairman is open to whatever choice may be made as a result of any one of several processes, whether energy on the part of some individual seeking the office, or agreement upon some candidate by men or groups within the committee or--to name the process that is most desirable--consideration for public need...