Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says he, will the men who understand global air power be able to create real - and by real he means -of air- power for the U.S. Meantime, says unmodest, sin cere Sascha de Seversky: "Those of us who have grasped the meaning of genuine air power have a clear function to per form. It is to hammer away, day and night, even at the risk of making ourselves a nuisance, at the mind and conscience of our country...
...Parties from contesting Parliamentary by-elections, hands the seats by default to the party which won them in the last (1935) general election. Snapped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard: "The result is a steady procession of ersatz M.P.s through the portals of Westminster. . . . They would have a valuable function to perform in a Fascist Grand Council where suitable and spontaneous cheers are required to intersperse the leader's broadcasts to the world...
...could feel nothing, although his hand began to tingle after a few minutes. Then it didn't tingle any more. Vag called the nurse's attention to this, but she merely replied, "Oh, that means that there is so little blood in your hand that your nerves don't function as they should. It's just the same as when your foot goes to sleep." "Oh," said Vag, and began to wonder if his hand might suddenly fall off. Just then, however, the nurse removed the needle, placed a bandage over the wound, and displayed the pintful of blood...
Harvard has clearly been moving in the last few months away from the function of education toward a state of confusion and feverish activity...
...also seagoing patrol craft, but their range is short, and their prime function is to break up fleet attacks on bases such as the Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft...