Word: functions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...portals are clangorous, traffic-jammed pavements, dank, echoing tubes, and steel trestles which never cease to vibrate to the slamming progress of trains. Its lights and liver function with the noisy urgency of a tabloid pressroom. Its buses, trucks & cabs jostle through its arterial streets like stampeding steers. Torrents of humanity pour endlessly down its sidewalks. At night it glares like hell's hottest coke heap...
...same. On the deadline, Arabs asked for another day and a half to discuss the truce order among themselves. But the brief hope for immediate peace flickered out when Arab spokesmen added a condition which the Jews would not accept: Israel's government must cease to function before the Arabs would consider a truce...
Most physicians would rather use a fluoroscope than X-ray photographs; it's the difference between watching a movie and a set of stills. A fluoroscope lets them watch the internal organs in action. But there are two difficulties: a doctor's eyes function poorly in the dim light needed to make the fluoroscopic image visible; the X-ray intensities now used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient. Last week Westinghouse Physicist John Wo Coltman, 32, who has been inventing gadgets since he was a boy, thought he had the answer...
...teaches the last two subjects herself). Exams are tough, but no marks are ever posted. Miss Madeira believes, with Robert Louis Stevenson, that "the world must return ... to the word duty and be done with the word reward." She also drums into the girls two mottoes of her own: "Function in disaster" and "Finish in style...
...Admissions has solved its problem of choice by compromise. While emphasizing the "democratization" of the College, the committee continues to admit a large body of men from a small number of private schools. These men, as has been pointed out, make generous alumni, and they therefore perform a valuable function while Harvard remains a privately endowed institution. Nonetheless the Admissions Committee should continue to work toward the most efficient and fairest intellectual entrance tests, screening out men whose ability to make use of the College is doubtful...