Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party was the increasingly powerful Moslem League. Still in jail were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Kalam Azad and some 8,000 other great & small leaders of the Congress Party. Even when, or if, the Congress Party recovered from British pressures and its own mistakes, and began to function again, it would not be the same without the binding personality of Gandhi...
Dominated by the Army and Navy even more than Harvard College, the Harvard Medical School is still carrying on, now fulfilling an important function in training service doctors and performing wartime scientific research. Severe staff losses have hindered this instruction and research, however...
...University's] function [is] advancing knowledge by freely determined research and teaching. We cannot see how the University could become an effective instrument ... of the revolutionary crusade . . . except by some kind of common institutional adherence to a particular analysis of what is wrong with the world . . . and ... a philosophically unified program of academic studies . . . that would serve as means. . . . We [ask you to] assure us that none of these apparent implications [of obligatory unity of thought] form any part of your practical intentions." Hutchins answered that he did not wish and had no power to enforce...
Church's Function. "The Church has the duty and the right to speak, not only to its members but to the world, concerning the true principles of human life. . . . The Church, as we know it, does...
...operation there can be only abject, unconditional surrender. Its proper subject was not Political Man or Economic Man, but man's relation to man as a consequence of man's relation to God. Malvern's New Order was as revolutionary as the New Testament. "The great function of the Church," says York's Archbishop, "is to be the conscience of the State...