Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platform. The sputtering, hissing Klieg searchlights played down on a tall, dark, ministerial figure grasping the high lectern with both outstretched hands. Despite the speaker's height, his appearance was partly obscured by the three panels of aluminum microphones behind which all the convention speakers had to function. Chairs kept on scraping. Seats clacked up and down. The drone of conversation died away slowly as the Voice resumed...
...must organize the poor and other citizens into farming groups, which can supplant the function of the former bourgeois landlords in producing an exportable surplus of grain...
...qualities much to be desired in college life and which few institutions would willingly do without. They are the things the "old grads" remember with the greatest tenderness when the last memory of what they learned in courses has long since been forgotten. But what of the primary function of the college--the education it is intended to provide? Nothing has yet been evidenced to prove that this quality is affected one way or the other by increased enrollments. This is necessarily true, for study is in its essence a task for the individual. Lecturers, tutors and advisers...
...spread is open to all members of the University and tickets may be bought at the Phillips Brooks House for $1.25. Last year 400 students attended this annual function and the sale of tickets up to the present show that an equal number will probably be present this year...
...countries have been directed to improving the machine, in designs of plane and efficiency of engines. Would that a small portion of the time and money thus spent in developing the machine had been spent in improving our knowledge of the medium in which the machine, like man, must function. The importance of a knowledge of the structure of the air is becoming more evident as long distance flights increase in number...