Word: functions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scoring but it was evened by Stoke's and Driscoll's fouls. With Wenner dropping long shots the score was tied at 10 all, but soon after Driscoll began his antics and the end of the half saw the purple leading by 22 to 15. Holy Cross continued to function during the first part of the second half, while Harvard seemed to sleep. A 20 point lead was reached. Near the end Baskerville and Wenner made a few spurts and the Crimson seemed to get on its feet, but Holy Cross was already stallnig. The end was fast, with...
...home is ceasing to function as "a unit of human association." Evidence shows that "high ideals and wholesome habits are acquired by children ... because of exceptional home influences...
...first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition. The same year, aged 28, she was sent to Germany as Italy's representative...
...Consultant on Careers adds the personal touch. Rather than acting in an advisory capacity, the office is to function as a bureau of expert opinion applying a wide experience in personnel work to the problem of the particular student. His choice of work, his educational background and practical experience should have more influence in the final decision. The cooperation of the two employment bureaus, the Senior Questionnaire, and finally this addition of personal and sympathetic interviews should combine to make the position and the occupant coincide to a more satisfactory degree than in the past...
...College of Heralds had done well by the Times in their selection of the device. On an argent field were drawn horizontal black lines, suggesting a printed page. Superimposed was a caduceus (staff of Hermes) to represent the newsbearing function. Happily chosen was the motto: Tempns fuit est et erit (Time was, is, and will be). Shrewd readers will recognize that the motto is also a reference to the daily headpiece of the editorial column in which appear the words: "Times Past," "The Times," "Future...