Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill Government also suffered further embarrassment. Three members of the Liberal National Party, which since 1931 has supported the Conservatives, resigned. Two of them announced that they would function as "independent" members of the House of Commons, while advocating a new Government of National Union with strong Empire representation. The third, moonfaced, ambitious, onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha (whom Churchill thoroughly detests and whom his son Randolph once described as "Britain's No. 1 Racketeer Politician"), stated that he would continue to support the Government. But many Britons guessed that he considered the eventual fall of Churchill...
Later, in the air, "time has ceased to run sterile through my fingers. Now, finally, I am installed in my function . . . an organism integrated into the plane. . . . The battle between the Nazi and the Occident was reduced to the scale of my job." At that point he realized that if they had avoided this assignment (he could have) it would have brought only "a sharp sense of discomfort. As if a necessary molting had miscarried." At 33,000 feet, with the controls frozen (it was 60 below zero), and with a village "a handful of gravel" beneath them, Dutertre sighted...
...future of colleges will depend not merely on endowments and the post-war situation, important as these things are, but on their ability to re-discover and re-define their true function and see that it is performed with constantly increasing effectiveness," he said...
...women will be admitted to the Law School despite the large decrease in enrollment, according to a statement by Acting Dean Edmund M. Morgan, Royall Professor of Law. He stated that the Law School would continue to function throughout the war on a 12-month basis although the student registration may drop off as much...
...fall of 1940 at the suggestion of Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, the group consists of Zechariah Chafee, Langdell Professor of Law, Morris B. Lambie, professor of Government, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Raymond Dennett '36, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House. Its sole function is to give information on procedure for objectors...