Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announced by North Carolina's Governor Clyde R. Hoey as a member in the North Carolina Cape Hatteras National Seashore Commission was Doris Duke Cromwell. Commission's function: To acquire and turn over to the Federal Government the first exclusively national seashore...
...another typical Yale underdog football team into the Stadium Saturday. The Elis have a good defensive line, a weak running attack, and a dangerous aerial offensive. On Saturday, that forward wall may become a ball of defensive fire capable of making Crimson ground advances painstaking, the running attack may function like a well-oiled machine, or the Blue passers may drop their deadly bombs right on their targets...
...starting ends Brownie Brinckley and Al Burtholemy, usually play a floating rather than a smashing game. The thought of Macdonald catching them flat-footed and scooting around them on reverses is apt to make them even more wary. Harvard's attack should be able to function for a succession of short gains even if there are no long touchdown dashes...
...this, the new Freshman survey course on "The Christian Religion", projected by the Divinity School for next year, comes as something of a novelty. Planned to deal mainly with the philosophy of Christianity, with emphasis on the present-day American church, it represents a new trend in the function of the Divinity School...
...Greene must certainly be surprised by the repercussions attending his refusal to grant a hall for a Browder meeting--from a "question of taste" it has become a "question of civil liberties." If the purpose of his action was not to deny free speech, it has, nevertheless, that very function, and in the present time when there is a general hounding of unorthodox, political groups, anything which might signify a restriction of free speech, a surrender to Mr. Dies' blackmailing, is to be carefully avoided. Mr. Greene's legitimate protest to the "New York Times" on its handling...