Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warning that the investigation was not the same as that of last year, where food preparation was investigated, MacKinney stated that the function of the Committee would be merely to suggest methods of alleviating the bad points of a necessary system...
...united front for war, this member of the Crimson and Guardian boards calls upon liberal leadership to recognize that the unity so essential now, is at best a union of opposites against a common enemy, and to preserve its ideals for the time of peace-making. Completing its literary function, Threshold includes two competent, though scarcely startling, undergraduate short stories, a number of poems, and a concise book column prepared by Max Lerner...
There were no sensational changes in the personnel of WPB. Its division heads were all chosen from OPM and SPAB; some dated back to the old National Defense Advisory Commission. The great change was in function. OPM had failed in part because of its leaders' divided authority and lack of full responsibility. WPB, as set up by Nelson, was to be a straight-line organization where every man had a duty, every man had the authority he needed, every man's successes or failures could be gauged at a glance...
...hostages apparently were handpicked because they included most of the best known expatriates--prominent doctors and denfists, many of them from the American hospital at Neuilly which continues to function as an American institution...
When the Dean insists that more "common sense, teamwork, and leadership" should be taught, students will nod to the familiar platitudes. But when Dean Donham demands vocational training in the colleges, his failure to comprehend the true function of a liberal arts college in a modern democracy is revealed...