Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and Canadian troops in Italy have been using an odd-looking, pipelike weapon vaguely reminiscent of the U.S. bazooka, and performing much the same function as a shattering short-range buster of tanks, armored cars or pillboxes...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant dismissed the notion of teaching the humanities to "any considerable portion" of the 10,000,000 veterans. Since returned soldiers "will be in a hurry," Harvard will function all year round. Veterans uninterested in or inept at "book learning" may get a year of vocational training leading to industrial jobs...
...Parents and educators will claim that students' vocabularies will not be expanded if they read texts written in less than a thousand words. But vocabularies can be broadened, he maintains, by having children transpose selections of regular English into Basic, a process that requires a full knowledge of the function of each word...
...celebrated weekly put on a weekly radio show for Philco (Blue Network, Sun., 6-7 p.m., E.W.T.). Just why the shrewd, slangy journal should break into radio was candidly explained by its grizzled, punchy editor, Abel ("Hiya, sonny boy!") Green: "For cash consideration, filthy lucre, publicity. For the durable function of bringing to the air what's good in all branches of show business-a sort of personality Crossley...
Ready Replacements. The vast supply function of the A.S.C. begins in the "accelerated service tests" of the Matériel Command. In these endurance runs of new planes, A.S.C. experts watch for parts which wear quickly, to be ready for replacement demands. By the time a new model (like the B29) is in the field, the parts it will need are ready to hand. In the Attu campaign, parts flown in by the Air Transport Command arrived before the planes for which they were ordered...