Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...check . . . There is no corresponding body to watch over the outgivings of Chairman Shaver of the Democratic National Committee, but he, too, has been worrying his own party more than cheering it, by some of his interviews. . . . The Chairmen should get it into their heads that their chief function is to work, not to talk...
...blasphemous Albigensian heresies." Purpose. The Society lays peculiar emphasis on purity of speech. But this ideal is extended to include purity of thought and life. "It gives its members," said a Bishop, "just that amount of moral suasion to keep them loyal to the regular reception of the sacraments." Function. It serves to organize laymen for the general welfare of the Church...
...permanent and useful factor in the present-day sales processes, particular emphasis will be placed upon methods of investigation employed for securing concrete facts and data in preparing and evaluating the appeals to be presented in any carefully prepared advertising plan. The course will deal with the place and function of advertising in business, with typical analyses of the markets and of the groups of persons to whom certain commodities are to be sold, with an analysis of the fundamental wants and characteristics of human beings and of the appeals to be employed in influencing the buying process, with...
...judiciary today, in its function as interpreters of the Constitution, is, as President Coolidge said last week in his Baltimore speech (see Page 1), the guardian of the people's liberties. But, when the procedure of our trial courts was being framed, judges were the last instruments of tyranny. They did the will of arbitrary rulers long after armed retainers, docile sheriffs and standing armies had lost their terrors. To protect society against...
Came Samuel Bowles III, the business man, at the beginning of our new era, wherein the primary function of a newspaper is to make money. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 15, 1878, a well-known Springfield citizen ap peared on his front porch, clad in dressing gown and carpet slippers. In his hands were the family tongs. With these he carefully picked up a tainted object which lay before him. Marching around, instead of through, the house, to avoid the possibility of contagion to holy precints, he deposited the object in the garbage can by the kitchen door. With...