Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is a mission which is peculiar to the Press-the mission to inform. Through all the alarms of the future, the true journalist will continue to believe in the paramount importance of the purely informative function of journalism. There is where his conscience will be most especially engaged. And his proudest boast will be that he has fearlessly, eagerly and effectively transmitted significant information from the boisterous newsfronts of the world into the minds of living and literate and free people...
...School of the Air of the Americas, and Blue's erstwhile Music Appreciation Hour. She admits what many a reformer has discovered for himself, that educators and women's clubs cannot put on better children's programs than radio now offers. That is not their function. Instead, says Mrs. Gordon, they should spur radio to far greater efforts...
Pomp, Not Panic. Although Hitler is supposed to have boasted that the Germans will be in Alexandria by July 8 and in Cairo by the 13th, there are practically no signs of evacuation or panic. The American Embassy and Military Mission Headquarters function with the same cool efficiency which characterized them when the enemy was well on the other side of Tobruk...
...years ago last March some of us at the School made up our minds that war was inevitable, and that the chance of this country's being involved was very great, and we started preliminary conversations with the planning division of the United States Army to see what the function of the School ought to be in war time...
...material for instruction in war problems for approximately two years-actively. The year before last, the Mobilization and Defense courses given in the second half year attracted approximately two-thirds of the eligible students. Early last spring, as a result of six months' further study of the war-time functions of this School and cumulative evidence that the Army and Navy wanted us to continue to perform a function for them as well as for industry, we started reconstructing the curriculum throughout. As a result, the School went on a war basis at the opening of last fall's term...