Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...home is ceasing to function as "a unit of human association." Evidence shows that "high ideals and wholesome habits are acquired by children ... because of exceptional home influences...
...first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition. The same year, aged 28, she was sent to Germany as Italy's representative...
...Consultant on Careers adds the personal touch. Rather than acting in an advisory capacity, the office is to function as a bureau of expert opinion applying a wide experience in personnel work to the problem of the particular student. His choice of work, his educational background and practical experience should have more influence in the final decision. The cooperation of the two employment bureaus, the Senior Questionnaire, and finally this addition of personal and sympathetic interviews should combine to make the position and the occupant coincide to a more satisfactory degree than in the past...
...College of Heralds had done well by the Times in their selection of the device. On an argent field were drawn horizontal black lines, suggesting a printed page. Superimposed was a caduceus (staff of Hermes) to represent the newsbearing function. Happily chosen was the motto: Tempns fuit est et erit (Time was, is, and will be). Shrewd readers will recognize that the motto is also a reference to the daily headpiece of the editorial column in which appear the words: "Times Past," "The Times," "Future...
With the arrival of Professor Lovejoy from Seattle coupled with the appearance a few days ago of the pamphlet containing the lists of courses, rules and regulations and requirements for admission, the Cambridge School of the Drama is ready to function as an actual organization. The Board of Governors, all Harvard men, contains a brilliant roll of names well-known in the American Theatre. A considerable number of students have already enrolled, the money necessary to operate the project is assured and the other instructors have been chosen...