Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Running reunions is the chief function of the six-man Permanent Class Committee, which represents the class after graduation and included the class treasurer and secretary as ex-officio members. The class treasurer, E. Langdon Burwell '41 ,was chosen in the election for marshals lsat Tuesday and Wednesday...
...enclosed volumes they create; the inter-relation of architectural masses; the materials used and the possibilities they open, and limitations they set, upon building design. The Landscape Architects should be able to help in developing a sense of outdoor scale; of shape, size, proportion and function of outdoor areas, their circulation and grading requirements; the integration of building and landscape development into an inseparable whole and the expert use of plant materials which makes this possible. The City Planner should bring forth the relation of any development to its farther-reaching surroundings; some discussion of the trends of growth...
...with one job: to get a hilltop perspective of the present and future, advise the U. S. how to avoid crooked paths and hopelessly blocked roads. Announced by OPM's production director, John David Biggers, was a nine-man agency to be called the Production Planning Board. Its function: centralized planning of the defense program, long-range planning for the sag that must inevitably come when the U. S. has more swords than plowshares...
Result is that while many a critic thinks that all three Sitwells are as mimsy as borogoves, with a highly refined flair for publicity, few critics think it out loud. Most of them feel like the young man who at one Sitwell function whispered: "You know, the Sitwells are so cruel; so devastatingly cruel, don't you think? Do you think they are going to be too awfully cruel today?" Last year when Edith Sitwell's Anthology appeared, rash Reviewer Hamilton Fyfe thought he would like to find out how cruel the Sitwells would be if somebody criticized...
...fool-proof poison gas. At this time, when material aid from this country is necessary to keep England going, some agency to coordinate scientific progress on the two sides of the ocean is required. The Government seems to feel that President Conant is a fit man to fulfill this function...