Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dual job to perform. First, he must attend the Council's weekly meetings where the group discusses various policy matters and makes recommendations to the Administration. Second, he must assume, alone or with another Council member, the leadership of one of the Council's working committees. Although the first function is important, it is the second which forms the backbone of the Council's activities...
...moment, statism and nationalization of enterprises are favored. There is no doubt that the Church also admits nationalization within justified limits ... But to make this nationalization the normal rule of public economy would be to reverse the order of things. It is public authority's function to serve private rights, not to absorb them...
...sized sheel season and decides the national championship for little college and club eights. It rotates year after year from one rowing river to another and draws little colleges and clubs from the nation and second and third boats from the big rowing colleges in the vicinity. Its big function is as the final testing course for the nation's single scullers...
...first visit to the United States, he disgusted Washington Irving with his coarse "tavern manners." He shocked Boston with his foppish "velvet waistcoats of vivid green or brilliant crimson" and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess...
Schnabel will give two lectures on "Music--Its Function and Limitations" here early next December. He succeeds Howard Hanson, of the Eastman School of Music. Hanson took over the post after its establishment in 1948. Mrs. Bertha L. Elson donated the lecture series in honor of her husband, a Boston musician and critic...