Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line. Dr. Spears was looking for a successor to famed Herb Joesting who pushed his backfield bravely along last season. He regarded Bronko Nagurski as a potential fullback and, having noticed his celerity, he suggested, immediately, this position to the enormous player. So powerfully did Nagurski function in fullback capacity that a nickname ("The Big Nag") was found for him and he became the first of the autumn heroes. Due in some part to the momentum with which the Big Nag's heavy hindquarters propelled his shoulders through a Creighton line, Minnesota won its opening game, 40?...
Personally, while I envy men who have the opportunity to write editorials, either under dateline or in their home paper, I have never felt that I had the right to do so. I consider my function as a press correspondent to be neutral and detached and simply to report developments as they arise, irrespective of the effect of the writings on the fortunes of the party of individual...
...British Foreign Office strove to counteract any such impression by welcoming U. S. correspondents to a charming little tea. Urbane Foreign Office officials pointed out at this function that the Coolidge-Kellogg note contains the following conciliatory passage: "The Government of the United States remains willing to use its best efforts to obtain a basis of further naval limitation . . . and is willing to take into consideration in any conference the special needs of France, Italy or any other naval power for the particular class of vessels deemed by them most suitable for their defense. ... It expects on the part...
Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author who has suffered from Christian ostracism, recommends in his new book, Midchannel, that states invest rabbis with full legal powers in affairs affecting Jews, especially concerning marriage and divorce. Several European countries have such autonomous courts. Manhattan has an extra-legal one whose chief function has become the smoothing of disputes between Jewish manufacturers and tradesmen...
...atmosphere that will in every way harmonize with the University atmosphere without the hustle and discomfort attached as at present to quarters provided in Boston. It has even further been proposed to construct in the building a large assembly and banquet hall where graduates may meet for any social function no matter how large, furnishing quarters for larger gatherings interested in music or lectures than now obtains in any of the limited space allowed for such functions Commencement week will find all Harvard alumni together in Cambridge where they belong with ample space and ample facilities awaiting their beck...