Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China's shrewd, rotund Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Kung knows that his ability to control prices in vast, loosely organized China would have been doubtful in any case. The Government has set open market ceilings. In some cities they function fairly well, in others badly, depending on the local administration. In the countryside they have little or no effect. Black markets are everywhere...
...attempts to chart social reconstruction: namely, the possibility of predicting the effect of any concrete governmental policy. After citing and evaluating authorities from Plato to Sorokin, Snower concludes that the only solution is pragmatic experiment. Presenting original thought on provocative questions is one of the Guardian's chief functions; this article exemplifies that function at its best...
History is not going to judge music by its original environment or function, however much these factors influenced its creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana...
...large majority of the mammoth turnout were Freshmen, and Brown hasn't yet been able to get a line on them. After he's seen everyone's stuff, he plans to cut the squad to 25 or 30 men, who will function as a flexible Varsity and Freshman-Jayvee outfit. The regular Varsity schedule will be played with '46ers eligible, and the second squad will fill the old Freshman program. Brown will coach both; in the absence of Al McCoy, now a Lieutenant in the Navy...
...members of the Association of American Law Schools echoed Harvard Law School's Acting Dean Edmund M. Morgan Jr. "The Law School will not close," he declared last week. "It has come through other wars and it will go through this war. It will continue to function as long as Harvard University continues." Many a law-school man thinks that the nation can ill afford to abandon legal education even during the war. Cried the president of the Association of American Law Schools, Columbia Professor Elliott Cheatham: "Lawyers are as dangerous and ab horrent to tyrants now as they...