Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helping to guide confused Freshmen to unknown corners of Harvard, the Information Bureau is working overtime at Brooks House these days. The committee, which provides these services annually, will continue to function through Monday, September 22. Handbooks are available to Freshmen who did not receive them by mail...
Without construction (and maintenance of Army facilities, also headed for the Engineers) the Quartermaster Corps still has its gargantuan job of feeding and clothing an army of 1,572,000. But the loss of construction and maintenance work strikes at an equally important function. Of 7,559 officers now on Quartermaster duty 1,404 are on construction and maintenance duty...
...social insects,* ants are the most highly developed. As many as eleven castes stratify some ant species: even the simplest colonies contain queens, drones, workers, soldiers. The drone caste contains all the colony's few males, whose sole function is sexual. So is the queen's. But the workers and soldiers are all sterile...
There are five such castles in Germany; a student spends a year in each one. He must study Nazi ideology, languages, history, skiing, riding, golf, other social graces, must learn to fly. Near each castle is a girls' center whose sole function is to entertain the boys...
...institute was a new idea, tried for the first time this summer by the U.S. branch of the International Student Service, Eleanor Roosevelt's latest fancy. I.S.S., a 21-year-old student relief organization whose chief present function is "to enlist American students in the struggle against totalitarianism," decided to bring college leaders together to train them for the job. From a list of 80 prominent collegians recommended by college administrators, it picked 32 by means of a history test.* Mrs. Roosevelt invited them to the big, rambling Campobello house, scurried round to collect beds for the 29 boys...