Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deficient in the real qualities of leadership) realize that the morale of the people always has been and always will be a function of the morale of their leaders...
...Materiel. Those guns stuck out like sore thumbs-for the maneuvers had brought out not only the Army's spectacular new function as an instrument of defense, but also Mexico's spectacular weaknesses. Mexico has only 42,000 first-line combat troops. There are some 60,000 additional Agraristas, country volunteers, armed with rifles by the Government. Yearly conscript classes may soon be added to the regular reserve...
...commercial type of swing just isn't worth a weekly spiel from anyone's hardworking typewriter. Such a column would be only a series of publicity releases for a group which certainly doesn't need any more attention called to it. Their music has no other function than to sell itself, and beyond its passability on the dance floor there is nothing to it. The blaring brass, thumping drums, and pseudo-terpsichorean antics commonly associated with swing are only a rapidly fading part of the whole popular music field...
...over the Yard leaving broken posters, crumpled pamphlets, hoarse throats, and shreds of torn hair in its wake. No one argues that student organizations should not maintain an independent existence, yet every reason pleads that some place be offered where they can meet in friendly, democratic debate. Democracy cannot function without full interchange of thoughts, and democracy today at Harvard is being smoked out in the class--not of ideas--but of pressures...
...undergraduate athletic committee will be set up, consisting of the captains of the major and minor sports. Their function will include the running of the various social activities of the Club, investigation into athletic affairs which may be necessary from time to time, ensuring that the working athlete has a decent job and is getting three square meals a day, and acting more or less as a Student Council for sports...