Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Church's Function. "The Church has the duty and the right to speak, not only to its members but to the world, concerning the true principles of human life. . . . The Church, as we know it, does not. . . . We, therefore, urge that enterprises be initiated whereby that life can be made manifest...
Worship of God. "I mean more than liturgy by that. I mean active acknowledgment by men of the will of God, the moral law of God, the justice and love of God-in their own lives and in the life of the world. The function of the Church is to prevent men from taking anything less than God as their ultimate concern...
...find indispensable ballast as he goes on in economics. The non-concentrators, however--and by requirement of the Division they are numerous in the course--are left with their tools in mid-air, without the slightest hope of ever touching the ground of reality. To carry out its dual function with justice to all, Ec A could profitably use more case material, and risk an occasional reference to government, unemployment, communism, and even Ft. Knox...
...human time-sense is a function of the velocity constants of the chemical reactions in the brain. . . ." ^ "Life ... is not a superphysical entity; it is a form of electrochemical behavior...
...profits--profits that swell the endowed loan funds, and also the revolving funds as far as losses through defaults are covered. Harvard does not milk its needy students to erect fancy laboratories and hire costly lecturers. But it holds its debtors responsible for building up its loan funds--a function that should be left exclusively to the donors of the future. At present, there is no shortage of loanable money; and considerable surplus margins are left over each year, particularly in the graduate schools...