Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duties of the Chancellor are carried out entirely, or almost so, by the Vice Chancellor; but the principal function left to the former is to see that the general interests of the University are looked after, especially regarding its relations with the Government. Political considerations are therefore bound to weigh in the election of candidates for the exalted post; although, in the case of Lord Oxford, political discrimination reflected no credit on the methods of the University...
...been, the past 25 years, primarily interested in prohibition, but with a vague general interest in patriotic subjects. The Protestant fraternal orders, on the other hand, have been primarily interested in what is included in the term 'patriotic' with a general interest in the prohibition problem. The function of this new alliance is to interpret each to the other so that these two, largely independent, parallel streams of moral and civic power, may both be utilized in turning all wheels that grind a grist of Americanism common to both...
...Prohibition does not exist in America or, rather, it does not function. It has changed social customs, but not lessened social drinking...
Bringing a divine spirit to the world of men?the function of cathedrals, temples and meetinghouses ; creeds, dogmas and theologies ; churches, denominations and sects ; priests, ministers and parsons; all the instruments of religion ? involves many controversial questions. Not least of these questions is : how far may the church properly intrude in industry...
...just taken his schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event as a state function with speeches, brass bands and official godspeed...