Word: functions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spending most of his time defending people before loyalty boards, House committees, and also before juries. "Defending" is Rogge's word for it, for he spends the greater part of 'Our Vanishing Civil Liberties' "attacking the fiction that the House Committee (or other government bodies) 'investigates' when its only function is to smear, condemn, and sabotage the legal activities of progressive Americans...
...nebulousness" is, of course, a function of the newness of our science: but nebulousness exists on the frontiers of even the most advanced and rigorous of sciences,-- which we are not. Those of a "factual" inclination, therefore, have every right to suspect that they may be unhappy in any science. We do suggest, however, that even at our present relatively primitive level of theoretical development, our work is of some value to those interested in understanding important areas of behavior. Norman Birnbaum Michael Olmsted Teaching Fellows in Social Relations
...Council, as Dean Bender has said, is a "deliberative body" whose chief function is the preparation of reports, "some of which have been extra-ordinarily significant." These reports are the job of the Council's eight Committees, which handle polls, conduct investigations, mull over their findings, and finally write a detailed summary of their activities...
...Feeney was deprived of the right "to perform any priestly function including preaching and teaching of religion" by a decree of Archbishop Richard J. Cushing issued on Monday...
...this fraction half live in the United States." Secondly, he added, "in this poker game our cards are up while the Kremlin's are down." "The press is continually floodlighting our hand," he said, while "underneath the card table are people like Drew Pearson--performing a very useful function...