Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...healthy woman can wear sheer stockings and low-necked dresses in winter without catching cold because warm blood is sent coursing through her skin by a sex hormone called theelin. Principal function of theelin (Greek theelis, female) is to make a woman womanly. It is elaborated by the ovaries.* The theelin molecule contains 18 atoms of carbon, 22 of hydrogen, two of oxygen...
...only to re-examine the productions themselves, but to visualize the social conditions that nourished them, to study the men who created them, to summon up what was good in that society for its measure of guidance for the present. Van Wyck Brooks sees art as a normal function of men and communities. If men of genius are frustrated in their struggles to release their creative faculties, their tragedies are reproduced in the lives of anonymous thousands for whom no records are kept, and, in the words of one of his followers, "the condition of the arts ... is intimately related...
...employer's niece. By the time this relationship has had its anticipated effect on their romance-amusement at his effrontery on the niece's part, outraged pride on Lara-bee's when he learns she is an heiress-the romance has served its anticipated function in excusing half a dozen songs tossed off in characteristic Crosby fashion...
...Berlin's huge Olympic Stadium, packed by 110,000 spectators, Reichsführer Adolf Hitler stopped chatting with his good friend Cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl, official Olympic photographer, long enough to discharge last week his sole function at the XIth Olympic Games. Said he: "I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the XIth Olympiad of the modern era." Trumpets sounded across the arena. On a flagpole, the Olympic Flag-white with five interlocking circles representing the five continents-was slowly raised. Outside the stadium, guns boomed. Atop the staircase at the East gate appeared the last runner...
...straighten these out Generalissimo Chiang did not call for the financial commission of white experts which might have been sent for a decade or more ago. Honesty in the sense that Western bankers are "honest" and efficiency in the sense that they are "efficient" is now in China the function of the Generalissimo's in-laws, the Family of Soong. Since famed Mr. T. V. Soong, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, could not be spared to go South, his able brother Mr. T. L. Soong was drafted to whip order out of South China...