Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed German school of architecture and design which Nazis later turned into a domestic science school for girls. It had a bony infancy. Fad-hungry interior decorators pounced on its chromium steel chairs and glass-topped tables. But many a buyer found it short on fun, however long on function. Trouble was-and still is-that metal furniture was cold in surface and line, clammy or hot according to the weather...
Their chief function is to gather inside news, authentic and up-to-the-minute...
...after Italy went to war, the Pope's newspaper failed to appear for the first time since 1870. Official explanation for Osservatore Romano's nonappearance: "The printing press has broken down." But on other occasions when its seven-year-old U. S. press has failed to function, Osservatore has appeared in mimeograph...
...Committee will act as a steering committee for the faculty. It will appoint special groups for specific problems and organize the procedure of the faculty meetings so as to allow the faculty meetings so as to allow the faculty to function with greater efficiency...
...implication, that the student is unaware of the extent to which the values of the teacher are being presented. At other times a less politic but sometimes more honest teacher will openly state his own position, and thereby run the risk of being charged with misuse of his function. The student must judge whether the teacher is intellectually honest and his discussion and recognition of values are relevant, or whether it is done in an effort to impose a teacher's views; done in a way that violates honest scholarship and distorts the subject of academic treatment. I submit that...