Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-four years ago this month, two days before Woodrow Wilson's departure on his second trip to Paris, Massachusetts' eloquent, elegant Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. rose in the Senate to offer a resolution. It began: "Whereas under the Constitution it is a function of the Senate to advise and consent to, or dissent from, the ratification of any treaty. . . ." It concluded: "Resolved . . . that the constitution of the league of nations in the form now proposed . . . should not be accepted by the United States...
Orthodox explanation of eye function is that the shape of the eyeball is as unchanging as a glass eye; focusing is done by the elastic lens at the front of the eye; the six muscles around each eye have no function except to turn the eyeball. In myopia (nearsightedness) the eyeball is usually long from front to back; in far-sighted people it is often short. In a nearsighted eye, the image falls in front of the retina; in a farsighted eye, behind the retina. Astigmatism is usually laid to slight eye distortions. As orthodox doctors agree that a patient...
...Morrison actually made no more concessions than Sir John or Sir Kingsley had made, but he stated the Government case with eloquent common sense. Morrison's clincher: Out of 23 Beveridge proposals, the Government had rejected only one (conversion of industrial insurance from a private to a public function); of the remaining 22, six had been deferred for further consideration, 16 had been accepted in principle...
...uncouth youth" named Hoggie Unglebower, a juvenile gang leader in West Baltimore. Hoggie was no Lothario, "he was actually almost a Trappist in his glandular life," but he was a master at killing rats and murdering cats. Hoggie fell from his pedestal the awful day his glands began to function, and Mencken transferred his loyalty to an instructive Shetland pony called Frank...
...President would duplicate back in 1940. Instead came a dreary series of compromises (the Defense Commission, OPM, SPAB), culminating in WPB itself. By that time the Army and Navy of necessity had acquired vast powers, not only over the ordering of war products (which has always been their function), but over the flow and scheduling of raw materials as well...