Word: functions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Traveler Corporation, I was interested in William Mullins' statement at the Law School Forum that in his 30 years with the Boston Herald he had never received instructions from either the publisher or his advertisers. My own observations while with the paper lead me to believe that Mullins' chief function is the receipt of "instructions" from his employer and publisher, Robert Choate...
S.R.L. thought that booksellers were as much to blame as the papers. Some, it charged, reported slow-selling books as "bestsellers" to step up sales. Others were influenced by "literary snobbishness." S.R.L. suggested an Audit Bureau of Bestsellers, to function something like the press's Audit Bureau of Circulation. It was time "that the book trade cooperated in a certified, scientific, irrefutable system...
...males are allowed to let off steam by pummeling each other with sticks or donning colored shorts and playing football to the music of a song called 0 Land of Our Mother, the Footballers' Queen. New Crete has a large class of bureaucrats known as "recorders." Their chief function is to destroy as many records as possible...
...function of government," Kennedy said, "is to do for the people what they cannot do themselves. General welfare is separate from the pursuit of private interests." He expressed the opinion that free enterprise should not be lightly cast aside but that public welfare cannot be increased with government intervention...
...patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...