Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither cause nor cure for this unhealthy situation is clear. But an unhealthy situation it is, for an educational institution does not function effectively if the men who do the actual educating cannot, or will not, aid in shaping the teaching policies of that institution. Perhaps someone ought to start spiking the Faculty's tea with...
After the painful symptoms of the backache have disappeared, the patient should take exercises to restore the power of the back muscles. The object of these exercises is to restore the natural function of the back...
Running reunions is the chief function of the six-man Permanent Class Committee which represents the class after graduation and includes the Class Treasurer and Secretary as ex-officio members...
...trouble in Europe, however, greatly increased this number, until these professors found that they were unable to perform their intended function of perfecting the language of English-speaking students...
...came to our next meeting at Phillips Brooks House, and with the air of a professional newspaper reporter whipped out a pencil and notebook. ten of us were seated at the round-table. Our Harvard junior manipulated his pencil. He never spoke. The function of a boll-weevil is not to speak but to bore. After the meeting members remarked to me that they were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes...