Word: functioning
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From then on, however, the Hoddermen showed flashes of the hockey of which they are capable. But even then, the attack did not function smoothly, indicating that this first taste of natural ice was not altogether enjoyable. Warren Winslow, George Duane, and Stacey Hulse brought the count up to 3 to 6; Indian goalie Lapres turned Back several other serious bids as Harvard forced the play continually...
...150th birthday might have been completely overlooked. With patriotic satisfaction Congressman Bloom heard Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Charles A. Beardsley of Oakland, Calif., president of the American Bar Association, and Chief Justice Charles Evans ("Zeus") Hughes extol the sesquicentenarian Court. Said Chief Justice Hughes: "It is the unique function of this Court not to dictate policy, nor to promote or oppose crusades, but to maintain the balance between States and Nation through the maintenance of the rights and duties of individuals. ... At the end of 150 years, this tribunal still stands as an embodiment of the ideal...
...judicial angles of the work of a Labor Relations Board or a Federal Communications Commission. Obviously, the Supreme Court is that body. Recent cases involving the NLRB show a tendency to recognize its new duty. Necessary now is only increasing recognition that, in the Chief Justice's words, the function of the court is "not to dictate policy, not to promote or oppose crusades," but to provide the "quiet, deliberate and effective determination of an arbiter of the fundamental questions which inevitably grow out of our constitutional system...
...experimental findings of Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi & associates at Columbia. Year ago Dr. Bethe was hailed by astrophysicists for figuring out that carbon must be the stuff that enables the sun to turn fragments of hydrogen atoms into sunshine (TIME, Feb. 27). Lately he has been working on the function in the atom's nucleus of a particle called the "mesotron," which weighs about 200 times as much as an electron, about one-ninth as much as a proton or a neutron. His findings, completed last week, will shortly be published in Physical Review...
Amiable, rotund Francis Taylor is one of the young directors now engaged in making U. S. museums look alive.* He believes that a museum's function, like Gaul, is divided into three parts : acquiring art, luring people in to see it, teaching them to make it part of their daily lives. The average American sees the inside of an art museum only once in five years. By upping attendance from 37,000 to 145,000 a year, Director Taylor made a monkey of this average at Worcester. A similar opportunity awaits him at the Metropolitan, where attendance has slumped...