Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whereas, in the opening of the new Fogg Museum on June 20, 1927, a new era has commenced for the division of Fine Arts, both in its function as a training school for museum workers, and in its curriculum that fosters so admirably an interest in Fine Arts among the undergraduates of Harvard, and through them in the American public in general...
...speaking, parallel to the Mississippi through Louisiana. By building strong levees all along its length to the Gulf it could be turned into a kind of trough which would draw off water from the Mississippi itself. In the present flood the Atchafalaya did, in a way, perform exactly this function; unfortunately, however, it received altogether too much water so that the later stages of the flood were along the Atchafalaya, not along the Mississippi. If, however, its levee system were strengthened and if additional spillways were constructed at other strategic points, another flood, split into many sections, might well remain...
...driving favorite, Cyril Tolley, one up. But Haley's fame was shortlived, for up popped Dr. Harold D. Gillies, a physician for the King of England, a famed golf theorist who tees his ball almost a foot high, who uses a monster-headed driver, who has studied the function of every muscle, nerve and blood vessel necessary for club-swinging. Dr. Gillies' favorite stunt is driving balls neatly off perpendicular beer bottles...
...couples pirouette. "Humph!" he exclaimed to a friend, "they look like people pushing wheelbarrows." A distaste for even the slight subterfuge of fancy dress is characteristic of both Their Majesties. And, today, as King and Queen they masquerade no more. Paradoxically they are fated to wear at every State function robes and diadems more breath-taking than any fancy dress...
...Author in her critical studies, The Common Reader, made it apparent that her analytical abilities outweighed her previous achievements in fiction, Jacob's Room, Night and Day. But Mrs. Dalloway and this book mark her as one who has not only mastered the novel but extended its function...