Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should the Churches have a say in the peace? From Protestants, Catholics, Jews and people of no faith at all, University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center got a nationwide answer: 63% think that peace planning is a legitimate function of the Churches; 33% think the Churches have no business meddling in the matter; 4% don't know. The strongest backing came from Protestants, Southerners, women, the underprivileged. More people in the upper economic and educational groups believe that peace planning is not the work of the Church...
Even when floated free, she cannot be righted quickly. Held at an angle of about 45 degrees, she is to be pulled into the middle of the slip by beach gear-great cables and winches whose function is not to lift but to harness side movement. Finally pumped dry, the Lafayette will still heel over until tons of bulkheading and refuse are removed...
...desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity...
...proud, slight (105 lb.) man, known professionally as Tom, is the owner of one of the strangest stomachs in existence. This stomach was the subject last week of a book (Human Gastric Function; Oxford University Press; $4.75), by Drs. Stewart Wolf and Harold G. Wolff of Manhattan's New York Hospital. Says famed Physiologist Walter B. Cannon in his foreword: "The functions of the stomach have never been investigated with the detailed care, the skill and ingenuity" that Drs. Wolf & Wolff display in their researches on Tom's stomach...
...uncomplainingly let the doctors do almost anything to him. His was a peculiar schedule: with or without breakfast, as the doctors prescribed, he lay all morning on the examining table, sometimes napped; in the afternoons he tidied up the laboratory and ran errands. Human Gastric Function reports what happened when Drs. Wolf & Wolff plied and prodded Tom's stomach with whiskey, glass rods, hot & cold water, mustard, drugs, air pumps. The book is a minute record of his stomach's color, secretion and activity when Tom felt relaxed and secure, when he was full, hungry, worried or angry...