Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physician, exiled by the Mussolini regime in 1930; in Geneva, Switzerland. Daughter of famed Criminologist Cesare Lombroso, widow of Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, quiet, pleasant Gina was best known for her savage and scholarly works on sociology and female psychology (The Soul of Woman). She held that women could properly function only as domestic companions, linked this theory with her main sociological conviction - the evil of the machine...
Government organization of war science has now been functioning for three years, the first year under a different name. One of the preliminary steps was the work of the National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel, now a continuing function of the War Manpower Commission, which attempted to find out and classify the scientific skills of individuals throughout the nation. Then the scientists were put to work...
...taking over of the editorial function by syndicated columnists...
Negroes of Push 'Em Clubs. Their reputed function: each member must take off one afternoon a week, spend it on the downtown streets jostling and pushing white folk...
...capsule theory of life and its assumption that any piece of writing can be improved by extracting every seventh word, like a tooth. We have occasionally been embarrassed to see our stuff after it has undergone alterations. . . . Mostly, however, we object to the Digest's indirect creative function, which is a threat to the free flow of ideas and to the independent spirit...