Word: functioning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ease raw-material shortages, the fact that WPB-which has no control over manpower or prices-is intrinsically a poor substitute for a genuine Economic High Command. And it still remains to be seen whether even really top-drawer industrial executives can get Washington's huge bureaucracy to function-or will be able to put up temperamentally with its futility...
...University cannot make this choice for him. Harvard's function has been predicated on assumptions foreign to the dynamic demands of war. Ultimately the decision, for the undergraduate and for the University, must come from those directly responsible for the military effort. Harvard may be able to train military specialists, but Harvard's peculiar task as a university is to train educated men. Therein lies her virtue and her honor. Only when the war is over can she come back into...
...Argentine Chamber of Deputies voted last week, 66-to-22, to ask Minister of Interior Miguel Culaciati to explain why he had not suppressed "the activities of the German National Socialist Party, which continues to function in Argentina under the name of the Federation of German Welfare and Cultural Clubs...
Expected to be slightly smaller than last year's organization, the band will direct its attentions this season to turning out better music and to more precise marching. In addition to patriotic services that are especially needed in war time, it expects to expand its former function which consisted mainly of playing at football games and athletic rallies...
...wealth. This is not the main consideration, so long as it mitigates the evils of unemployment and inequality. . . . War is at the present time the most purposeful of our social institutions; and we shall make no progress towards its elimination until we recognize, and provide for, the essential social function which it performs...