Word: functions
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Every part of the Parthenon is expressive of its function and beautifully expressive. The construction is simple and forms an ideal organism. Entering between the columns at the east end or front, one comes to the cella where the shrine was. Beyond is another chamber or adytum, which was used probably as a treasury. The whole idea of the temple was a house for the goddess, surrounded by columns upholding a roof...
Geological Conference. Paper: The Function and Systematic Importance of the Aptychus in Ammonites. Dr. C. R. Eastman.- The Quartz Porphyry of Mt. Pequawket. Mr. R. A. Daly. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Conference. Paper: The Function and Systematic Importance of the Aptychus in Ammonites. Dr. C. R. Eastman.- The Quartz Porphyry of Mt. Pequawket. Mr. R. A. Daly. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...speaker first argued that in issuing the legal tenders the government is assuming a banking function for which it is unfitted. Issue, being carried on by discount and deposit, is essentially a banking function. Behind the power issuing there should be an adequate reserve fund to meet all outstanding notes. There should also be some means of regulating the issue. The income of the government is fluctuating, and in consequence the reserve fund in the treasury cannot be maintained at a given level. Again the treasury has no means of regulating the credit issue to the needs of the community...
Every part of the human body has been modified and determined by the peculiar function it has been made to perform. The traces of primitive man show a constant struggle with natural forces, a struggle for supremacy which developed all the muscular powers which have been handed down...