Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stumble down a flight of stairs. One night one of the stairs was missing and he broke his legs. U. S. doctors said he could never fold again, but Vienna specialists proved them wrong. In London, Ambassador Dawes thought it would be fun to have Errol function anonymously as a waiter at an embassy dinner. Errol crashed silver and glass about, poured mineral water on a lady's arm, dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused...
...competitor. All this the work of Tycoon McGarrah has changed. The "cash register" has become a brother and nobody minds, is growing bigger every day without exciting fear. "The public is all wrong about the B.L.S.," said Tycoon McGarrah last week. "It imagines that the chief function of the institution is to collect German payments and distribute them to the debtor nations. This now amounts to only 20% of the business of the B. I. S.I) With the joy of a great man doing a great work that is fairly booming along. Gates W. McGarrah told guests at a bankers...
...committee in charge, headed by E. W. Soucy '16, and consisting of W. B. Felton '19, M. J. Logan '15, L. H. Leary '04, and Caroll Swan '01, is expecting over 1200 graduates and members of the club to attend the larger function...
...modern University must deal with modern problems. The function of the University as a public servant is liable to be forgotten in the endowed institution. As in the problems of legal aid and unemployment, so in medicine is the place of the Liberal University with the pioneer, rather than the antiquary...
...view of the recent employment depression, the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet has appointed a committee to cooperate with the various organizations attempting to alleviate unemployment. The function of this committee is to find out in what way it will be possible for Harvard and Harvard organizations to lend material aid in removing the misfortune and poverty that is attending the present depression. The major factor of this move is that this committee will attempt to sponsor benefit dances, obtain jobs for the unemployed, and assist other really practical measures...