Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combat this influence, American propaganda is just beginning to function, Knauth declared. He admitted, furthermore, that it was unlikely that it will produce any concrete results, unless coupled to substantial German military reverses...
This new farm program, Rice said, will serve much the same function as Camp William James, which was forced to close last August because of financial difficulties. It has received the support of American Defense Harvard Group, the Defense Service Committee, and several other organizations...
Keeping pace with them as it scored two triumphs by wide margins over teams which had previously been in the running was Princeton's agile quintet. Although the Tiger's steady attack continued to function, it was the Nassau defense which made the victories comparatively easy. The Orange and Black held Penn to 31 points and Cornell to 30, figures which are about 25 percent below the average scores of these two teams on a season's basis...
...Germany Yamashita had been excited by the Luftwaffe's function as heavy artillery mounted on hawks' wings. He had acquired licenses to build Stukas and light attack bombers. He had also got the rights for the 800-horsepower B.M.W.-132 radial motor, and for certain precision instruments made by Patin and Telefunken...
Major Gen. Charles M. Wesson, Chief of Ordnance, recently directed his 13 district procurement offices to expand their local staffs of civilian engineers and management men, by at least five. Their function: to show small manufacturers how to do Army work and how to get Army orders. Furthermore, said the General, big Army contractors should be drafted to act as "big brothers" to these little men, by lending out their own engineers...