Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holden Chapel long ago outlived its religious function. Perhaps too, it has now passed beyond its active stage as a general handy room. Its main value now is that of a relic, a museum which exists in semi-obscurity, mainly in the minds of antiquarians. To the few odd souls, however, who appreciate its architectural qualities, there comes the hope that some day it may be restored to its original beauty and dignity...
...Washington, Maxon tried to make OPA popular even with businessmen. He reasoned: if OPA could only be rid of all its "slide-rule boys" and economic theorists, the agency would function smoothly. He did help force the resignation...
...Dwight Griswold said it best: "No system of government operation can produce goods and raise living standards as does a system of private industry. ... If industry following this war is to have a chance to make good, then certainly industry must have proper laws under which it can function. . . . Our lawmakers will need to be friendly to industry...
Said Malvern's godfather, William Temple, who is also Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England: "Our function is to watch the politicians, spurring them on by criticism of the existing order in the light of our principles...
...unemployment . . . that will cover nearly every proposal in the social and economic field . . . and keep us true as regards our main direction and deliver us, as nothing else can, from the hell we have made of life by letting the means to our welfare assume in our thought the function and position of that welfare itself...