Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minefields were to perform the triple function of locking out from home what was left of the German Navy, locking in further supply ships, and lightening the blockaders' sea-patrol task. By sowing so wide an area, even if sketchily, they would make arduous work for Nazi minesweepers, already working overtime to clear the Skagerrak and Kattegat. Nevertheless, nine more Nazi troopships made landings inside Fredrikstad before the week's end. A lot of noise at sea Thursday and Friday which observers took for heavy fighting was doubtless German countermining, i.e., firing depth charges to explode mines which...
...other function the Party has served: as a more or less accurate gauge of the country's fevers. In 1912, when the U. S. was beset by restless Labor, debt-ridden farmers and a discontented West, the vote for a Socialist for President shot up. Up it shot again in 1932, with the persistent depression. In periods of complacency (1928, 1936), the Socialists are nowhere. Last week, as the U. S. shivered with war chills, ached with unemployment, the Socialist Party convened to adopt a platform, nominate a President, take the U. S. temperature...
...great number of hypertensive patients, Dr. Goldblatt discovered choked kidneys similar to those he had produced in dogs. Strangely, in many cases kidney function was undisturbed...
...students at St. John's are excited by their work and by the revival of the debt-ridden little college that almost died. They sharply reject the adjective "experimental" as applied to them, and consider the New Program as "the re-establishment of the original college with its original function of intellectual freedom and discipline...
...back door for a cup of coffee, left after one sitting and never came back. Artist Friedman put him on canvas in his faded overcoat and battered hat, with one eye out of focus. He spent most time painting the hand, made it the symbol of a working function that society had dis carded...