Word: functionings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Hurricanes seem to be pursuing and intercepting successfully the very aerial foe we are preparing to ward off, and yet for that same function the U. S. must pay more than three times as much, plane for plane. Is it inefficiency, the standard of living, or gravy...
...States peers out into the future, its leaders attempt to find security not only in rearmament and conscription, but in carefully cultivated friendship with Latin America. More and more men will go South to find a career, as cultural exchange increases and trade-nets tighten. Clearly it is a function of a wide-awake college to offer such individuals the chance to prepare themselves. And it is equally clear that, as this new world opens beyond our shores, it is the University's duty to be ready and willing to educate all interested in these peoples and their ways...
...tendency of grownups to get fed up with Youth. Thereupon I. S. S.'s advisers-among them: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Smith's President-emeritus William A. Neilson, Williams' Professor Max Lerner-decided that the organization should have as its main function teaching youth "to think historically and to act with restraint." Said they: "Organized 'action groups' . . . have been able to secure much greater influence than their relatively small numbers deserve...
Powelson was accompanied last night by John P. Powelson '41, who is following in his brother's footsteps despite the fact that he was unable to attend the function last year. Neither of them stay to listen to the speeches...
...total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry for a war that might run on for years. Repeated bombings of the same place time after time, until repairs are discouraged and the place and its function abandoned, are the kind of bombings that stick. The British pattern for Germany was unvaried for more than four months. Concentrated in the coal-seamed Ruhr district between the Rhine and Ems Rivers was a high percentage of Germany's war industry-synthetic oil, steel, chemicals, munitions-and important...