Word: function
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tobacco bills accept the Supreme Court's dictum that crop control, if any, is a function for the states rather than for the Federal Government. The essence of the new scheme is that individual states operating by mutual arrangement under identical state laws shall impose penalties on farmers who grow more than their quotas. Such state control, however, does not eliminate the Federal Government from the picture. Says the Constitution: "No State shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into agreement or compact with another State." Last week's law was drafted to give the necessary Congressional consent...
...small girls play at dolls. Her training began so long ago that she now absorbs instruction almost subconsciously. While her director explains how he wants a scene played, Shirley looks at her feet, apparently thinking of more important matters. When the take starts, she not only knows her own function but frequently that of the other actors. Camerawise, she knows when she has made a mistake and will hold up her hand to stop the take. When a scene is made in which she has to cry, her mother takes her off the set and talks to her sternly...
...seed which the Puritans planted in 1636 has grown and blossomed, so that not just at Cambridge but all over the country is a group of universities that forms one of the strongest bulwarks of free government. Despite the temporary encroachment of petty politicians, bent on perverting the true function of education for purposes of propaganda and personal aggrandisement, democratic government is unlikely to land on the rocks for good as long as the spirit of learning prevails. It is definitely encouraging, then, that Congress has officially recognized the importance of higher education to the welfare of the general body...
This remarkable state of affairs seems to be the result of a policy based upon a misguided conception of the relative worth of teaching and scholarship. The department of Physics is supposed to teach Physics; at the same time, it appears, its function is to engage in exhaustive research work. At the moment, all its energies are directed toward the latter end. In theory, men are engaged for their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger...
...another espoused. At Fontainebleau, where Miss Mansfield died in 1924, Gurdjieff ran the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. He taught his followers intricate dances for which he composed 5,000 pieces of music. He enjoyed mirth, appeared to enjoy heroic rages, advocated intense awareness of every muscular function. Six years ago Gurdjieff arrived in Manhattan, was often to be seen in Childs' restaurants drinking coffee and working over a monumental book, Tales Told by Beelzebub to His Grandson (TIME, March...