Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drug addicts is effected by replacing the desire for drink or drugs with a desire for health. Such a sermon would not be listened to under ordinary circumstance ; during hypnosis the ideas not only sink in but take a firm hold and reappear at the appointed time to function in consciousness without so much as a by your leave...
...customer's man (or woman) is the liaison officer between the customer and the Stock Exchange floor. His function is to tip, advise, caution, stimulate, warn customers, in other words to provoke trading and "produce" commissions...
...patronesses for the function will be headed by Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell and will include Mrs. Allen Curtis, the Marchesa Ferrante di Rufflano, Mrs. C. S. French, Mrs. E. F. Green, Mrs. E. B. Hill, Mrs. Samuel Hoar, Mrs. George Lee, Mrs. Frank Levereni, Mrs. Guy Lowell, Mrs. J. A. Coolidge, Mrs. C. H. Grandgent, Mrs. J. D. M. Ford, Mrs. J. R. Darling, Mrs. F. R. Nourse and Mrs. Murray Potter...
...Class of 1931 gathers in the Smith Hall quadrangle the latter part of May for its festivities, it will celebrate in an entirely different manner from the Class of 1918, the pioneer in Freshman Jubilees. For during the 13 years which have elapsed since the initial Jubilee, the function has evolved from a semi-concert for the entertainment of fond parents and relatives to a typical jazz frolic beneath multicolored lights to the tune of modern syncopation...
...fundamental are these researches that during the War and the aftermath, when all of Russia existed on starvation rations, Pavlov's laboratory continued to function as in times of peace. There was no bread to eat, but there were test tubes, metronomes, platinum wires, and as Pavlov remarked gratefully "always plenty of paper and pencils to write down experiments...