Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the College. Men coming to the School from other colleges have few or no associations in Cambridge and without some place at which they can meet socially, their associations with other men in their department are necessarily made more slowly. Up to the present time this function has been performed by the Lincoln's Inn Club, and now with the organization of the Chancery Club even greater opportunities for social intercourse will be possible...
...Capitalism has a function which Fascismo recognizes and approves. But Fascismo also recognizes that the fate of capitalism as well as the fate of the workers depends on the fate of the nation." Five to One. At the close of this oration the docile senators passed (139 to 27) a bill making strikes and lockouts unlawful in Italy and setting up special "Labor Magistrates" to settle all differences between employers and employes...
...outer surface of the brain is grey in color. Here are the nerve cells which function in consciousness. One estimate counts 92,000,000 cells. A stimulus comes to one or more of these, and each affected cell stimulates ten of its neighbors (by this theory). Each of these ten stimulates a neighboring ten, and so on by geometrical proportion, until the influence of the original stimulus fades away. Such stimuli are normally brought to these cells in the grey cortex (bark) by the nerve fibres. These form the white core of the brain. (Naturally there are blood vessels...
...cerebrum (the tumor operation had nothing to do with the cerebellum) is divided from front to back into two hemispheres, a left and a right, which function almost alike. Each hemisphere is composed of five lobes, termed frontal, parietal, occipital, temporosphenoidal and central. Each is separated to a certain extent from its neighbor by fissures, or depressions, and each is also made up of elevations called convolutions and of lesser depressions...
...function of nagging careless students, the Committee on the Use of English by Students works to good effect. Its warnings and summonses enforced by threats of English F do much to inculcate the idea that English A sets a minimum standard for upper class men as well as freshmen. But in dealing with particular cases, the ways of the Committee are inscrutable...