Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a heading LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES SHOULD NOT BE BULLIES, the Times sternly editorialized: "It is no proper function of a legislative committee ... to turn itself into a prosecutor of what may currently be unpopular. . . . When they turn themselves into witch-burning agencies . . . they go far afield...
...Radio Radcliffe's function is not purely one of entertainment. During the summer it broadcast an appeal for blood donors to save the life of a boy in Cambridge City Hospital, announcing the blood type required. Since Radcliffe has no daily paper, notices must be broadcast, and Marge Erganbright '45, broadcasts "Campus News" once a week...
...Secretary Ickes, Petroleum Administrator, said unfinished Canol "is worth nothing and will have no value after the war," declared it "ought to be junked now." A WPB expert asserted that the 550-mile pipeline being laid between the oilfield and the refinery at Whitehorse in the Yukon will never function effectively because the mountainous wilderness it traverses is too cold...
...Advocate elected four new members to act in an honorary function until the end of the war or until publication should be resumed; then they will-assume the regular duties. In spite of the fact that their office is to be only honorary for the present, these members were chosen for their literary ability...
President Manuel Avila Camacho last week told his people and the world that the Mexican Army is "ready to function wherever circumstances may dictate-here on our territory . . . and even away from our territory if for justified motives our allies...