Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publicity is far from the only function of the Defense Group, which helped to place over 100 refugee children in schools and homes during the past year. A drive for Christmas gifts to Britain in 1940 netted five large crates which were dispatched, to London...
...Office of Facts & Figures is not supposed to overlap these other information mills-its function is to see that they get their stories straight. OFF will try to keep the various Government services from tripping each other up, publishing contradictory figures, at least at the same moment. It will work behind the scenes with the Inter-Departmental Advisory Committee, will report to busy little Fiorello H. LaGuardia, director of the Office of Civilian Defense...
...late autumn, the yellow and red pigments, following the green, disintegrate in the leaves. This final unmasking reveals the dull brown tannins, which are chemically so stable that they remain till the leaf rots to powder. Unlike flower pigments, which have the vital function of attracting pollen-spreading insects and birds, autumn's colorful foliage is just a meaningless, glorious show...
Manganese is used in small amounts by the copper, glass and dry-cell battery industries; but steel uses most of it; about 13 Ib. per ton. Its function in steelmaking is to collect the stray traces of sulfur which all carbon steels contain. The sulfur tends to combine with the iron to make iron sulfide, which collects in films among the crystals of hardening steel, prevents cohesion, makes it brittle, so that it cannot be forged and rolled. Manganese takes the sulfur away from the iron and the manganous sulfide which is formed collects in small globules throughout the metal...
With these special opportunities MARCH OF TIME will resume its peculiar function of giving auditors the sense of being on the scene of great events. One of TIME'S managing editors took direct charge of preparing the script. Part of TIME'S staff and all of TIME'S newsgathering resources were placed at his disposal to give a coherent story of the events of a stirring new decade...