Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British positions in September, El Alamein was no place for the sweeping tank tactics of the open desert. To break either the Axis or the British line, the attacker needed artillery and more artillery, supporting and opening the way for infantry and tanks. Aircraft could-and did-function as flying artillery, but the Eighth Army's main effort in the preliminary stage was to build up its artillery strength. The Germans presumably did the same thing-with what success, the British were learning this week...
...resulting confusion. Established to collect steel scrap-regardless of cost-the most recent agency, War Materials, Inc., adds administrative problems to the already crowded field. Lacking the power to condemn needed items as well as the jurisdiction over the scrap's eventual destination, it requires a charitable public to function at all. This at a time when some steel mills operate on a bare two week supply and when, as in July, an estimated 367,000 tons of steel production is lost through lack of scrap...
...everyone is a member of some privileged class, no one will be doing any work. Real free enterprise is needed. Regulation of the production and distribution of wealth, whether intended for the benefit of J. P. Morgan or of John L. Lewis and the boys, should never be a function of government. Mason Gaffney...
President Conant's Chapel speech is noteworthy for its bluntness. Saying little that has not been implied before, it nevertheless confirms authoritatively what every college student has anticipated: perhaps by February, certainly by June, the peacetime function of the colleges will be incompatible with the demands of total war. The storm signals have been out for months, but students and faculty members have clung to the hope that the colleges might preserve the liberal tradition. President Conant's plan for the war colleges recognize the futility of that hope...
...Bear and Mature himself, with Saroyanish overtones. He hides buzzers in his palms when shaking hands, wears zoot suits, and is in general a card. Parodying himself with boyish abandon, Mature seems much more at home than in such heavy stuff as "One Million B.C." The main function of his co-star in the proceedings, Betty Grable, is, as always, to exude femininity. She does this unremittingly and well...