Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure way for any mathematician to achieve immortal fame would be to prove or disprove the Riemann hypothesis. This baffling theory, which deals with prime numbers, is usually stated in Riemann's symbolism as follows: "All the nontrivial zeros of the zeta function of s, a complex variable, lie on the line where sigma is ½-(sigma being the real part of s)." The theory was propounded in 1859 by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (who revolutionized geometry and laid the foundations for Einstein's theory of relativity). No layman has ever been able to understand...
Explaining the function of the International Bank, Professor Hansen stressed the analogy between the background and aims of this world banking institution and the Federal Housing Administration in this country. Just as the financing of home construction in the United States was plagued by the insecurity of leans and "fantastic" interest rates, so, Hanson stated, were international loans characterized by a lack of security, high interest rates, and a failure to demand productive use of the borrowed funds...
When a big artery is severed, the parallel, subsidiary blood pipelines only rarely function well enough to prevent gangrene; in the war in Tunisia, gangrene developed in 70% of severed artery cases. The standard technique of sewing severed blood vessels together, devised by the late Dr. Alexis Carrel, is successful only 40% of the time-under the best conditions. It was therefore a major medical event when Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Dr. Jere W. Lord of Cornell University medical school found a new way of welding broken arteries that succeeds...
...Elliott's place, the Beaver appointed grey Herbert S. Gunn, who signalized the end of leftist tomfoolery with his first memo to the Standard staff: "The chief function of an evening newspaper is to TELL THE NEWS." But the Standard still had one rugged warrior to keep its tattered leftist ensigns flying: famed, impish Cartoonist David (Colonel Blimp) Low, who is not above caricaturing his own boss...
...writing the majority opinion, Justice William O. Douglas admitted that the Court cannot set aside the rates approved by ICC. Nor can the Court act as a rate-making body, a function which Congress has specifically delegated to ICC. But, said Justice Douglas: "If the alleged combination is shown to exist, the decree which can be entered will be no idle or futile gesture. It will eliminate . . . the collusive practices which the antitrust laws condemn. . . . It will supply an effective remedy." On this, the dissenting Justices, led by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, said sharply: "It seems obvious that this...