Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Burial? Nobody could prove anything shady or illegal about the Mapes Hotel loan, but neither could anybody prove that the RFC's action looked very smart. There was a more basic question: Was it a proper Government function in boom times to lend money to businesses where private bankers refused to tread? Wasn't RFC too often supporting an army of potential bankrupts, to keep them going against sharper competitors...
...European countries in the Marshall Plan unanimously agreed to set up a European Payments Union (TIME, June 12). When operating, EPU will make their currencies-even sterling-almost fully interchangeable for the first time since World War II. Said a pleased Dutch delegate: "The whole Schuman Plan could not function without EPU. It is the basis for our work...
...four. Society is in a bad way when too many people reject every ancient truth and tradition in ethics and politics and art because thereby they can show off better at cocktail parties. Civilization is an infinitely fragile bundle of accumulated habits and restraints. The necessary conservative function of any generation is not just to enjoy itself but to pass on this bundle in good condition to the next generation...
...future, the Record concludes: "Unless a college building expresses in its architecture the advancement of thought and dissemination of knowledge which are the college's reasons for existence, that building has in some degree failed to achieve its purpose. However well it may perform mechanically. . . it fails to function philosophically or even spiritually...
...commencements send out into the world individuals--individuals each of whom is different and each of whom has different aspirations, and potentialities, and a different future. The commencement speaker by his very function must address each of these individuals as if each were a mere cipher...