Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advanced education in this country is to continue its proper function," President Conant said, "It is important that academic degrees continue to signify the completion of a normal academic course either in college or a professional school. A special certificate will be given to all who leave college in good standing to join the armed forces, he said, but "the question of giving honorary degrees to those who have served in the Army and the Navy during the war may well be deferred, as in the last war, until the war is over...
...International Student Service. The plan is that the magazine can serve as the clearing house for existing groups studying post-war problems, rather than attempting to build up such groups from scratch. In this way duplication of existing work can be avoided and the magazine can perform a function that is not being done...
Approval of the course has been voiced by the Passive Defense Project in Boston, whose function is the study of camouflage, under the supervision of the Camouflage Department of the Engineer Corps, U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia...
...Divided authority: SPAB cannot let contracts-that is an Army & Navy function. SPAB cannot finance projects -that is a Jesse Jones monopoly. SPAB cannot enforce its Latin American rulings-such policies are set by the Board of Economic Warfare and interfered with by the State Department. SPAB cannot touch production-that belongs to Knudsen in OPM. SPAB cannot handle conversion-that is the function of Floyd Odium's subcontracting division, and Odium cannot do anything either, because the Army & Navy let all contracts. Yet SPAB is supposedly the top defense board...
...most disappointing part about this film is that it looked as if it might mildly promising in a Sunday afternoon sort of a way. Mickey Rooney has his admires. He has, in the past, fulfilled a certain valuable function in glorifying the American family as Andy Hardy. My mother wouldn't throw his autograph into the waste basket, if he sent it to her. And Judy Garland has a very nice voice. We are merely trying to prove that it wasn't entirely our fault for going to the movie in the first place...