Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although TIME'S crowded masthead doesn't list the "Distributing Editors," their colleagues wouldn't know what to do without them. There are 100 of them altogether, deployed from the Mail Room to the Morgue, performing the time-honored function of office boys & girls everywhere. For us, they carry countless "takes" of editorial copy, distribute some 1,500 newspapers, hundreds of telegrams and messages every day; lug advertising plates to the printer, contracts to the lawyer, pick up photographs at the Customs House, turn on the air conditioning, sharpen pencils, turn off the air conditioning, ad infinitum...
...knowledge of any State Department effort to get what Editor Elliston calls a "plan" written. But Petersen defended the State Department on the grounds that the Byrnes policy was still young. He disclosed, however, that War Department representatives on SWNCC's staff had, although it was not their function, started a draft rewrite of 1067, and that the draft was now in a SWNCC subcommittee...
...early election and unorthodox nominating procedure (labelled as a self-perpetuating move on Friday by the Revisionists) on the grounds that the Council was at present four men under strength. He cited three major committees -- Extra-Curricular, Housing, and Student Finance--as being swamped with work and "unable to function effectively since every available Council member is already occupied with other matters...
...occupants to a centrifugal or "quasi-gravitational" force measured in additional Gs. During a "five G turn," the pilot's body weighs five times as much as normal. The Navy's gruesome merry-go-round will determine how much a human body can weigh and still function. Without a protective "G suit" (TIME, Sept. 23), the average man blacks out at about 5^ Gs. His pulled-down facial tissues make him look 20 years older...
Typical of the commercial trend is the new Record Album-of-the-Month Club, an illogical offspring of the book club species, Serving no original function, the Club duplicates already excellent record reviews such as those of the Gramophone Shop and Bernard Haggin, while high-pressuring gramophone owners into buying albums of similar music which they could have purchased all along. Encouraging musical inertia and lack of discrimination, the new group misses a chance to concentrate on new music, and winds up by mailing the dances from "Prince Igor" one month and "Annie Get Your Gun" the next...