Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Princess Margriet, 7, performed her first public function by unveiling the monument. Also present was three-year-old Princess Marijke, who was annoyed by the singing of several hundred Haarlem children and cried: "I want to go home. It is no good." Apart from this incident, the ceremonies went off smoothly. In time, even the literal-minded Dutch might come to believe in the Hero of Haarlem...
Mechanics and drivers were up early too, fussing and tuning up the streamlined little racers, looking for flaws, profanely praying that hidden parts would function smoothly. At Driver Johnnie Parsons' station in the pits the mechanic could hardly believe his eyes. Parsons' bright yellow Wynn's Special (representing an investment of $35,000) looked sleek and fit, but under the unstrapped hood the mechanic had found a telltale trickle of water seeping out of a crack in a spanking-new cylinder block. There was no time to change engines, so the mechanic did the next best thing...
...will probably profit by its expansion. But the Council will also benefit. Since the introduction of the elective system, the Council, as we have pointed out before, has tended to forget its main advisory function for activities seem, perhaps, newsworthy operations more likely to gain votes for members...
...addition to the forum the Key will also take over the function of the NSA in sending information about activities in Cambridge and Boston to visiting colleges during the football season...
...high, thin arid rigid, the Assembly hall had the concave roof and sides of a low tarpaulin stretched from four corner posts-a difficult and perhaps inefficient construction to handle in stone. As ARCHITECTURAL FORUM put it, the Assembly building "marked an architectural shift-from emphasis on 'function' and structural logic to emphasis on form and the logic...