Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eloquence for Hire. Currently, Washington's most conspicuous ghost is President Truman's Clark Clifford (Economic Adviser Elliott Bell performs the same function for the Republicans' Governor Tom Dewey). Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington is supplied with speeches by young, cocky Steve Leo, onetime Maine newsman; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan by ex-TIME Reporter Wesley McCune. General Omar Bradley's famed, soldierly prose is the product of Lieut. Colonel Chet Hansen, an ex-newspaperman who planned to leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host...
...little Bonn, where Beethoven was born, the new German federal government which has barely begun to function is still trying to find room for its ministries in schools, storehouses, private homes; the sleepy town, with its heavy Victorian houses and yellow streetcars, seems withdrawn and dreamy, as if it had decided to live in retreat from the harsh realities outside. But Communist propaganda, radiating from the Reds' Eastern puppet state, reminds Bonn of reality...
Harvard's performance in winning was by no means impressive. Its fast-break attack did not function so smoothly or so effectively as it might have, and therefore, the Crimson resorted to more of a control-type game. In addition, Harvard's scoring trailed off at the end of both periods, a deplorable trend which marked most of last season's discombooberations. In the last two minutes of play, Tufts threw in eight points to the Crimson's three...
Today, as then, it stands on the bottom floor of Widener serving a necessary function and having as its neighbors the stored books of the University Press and the air-conditioning units of Houghton and Lamont Libraries...
...report will take up freshman advisers, departmental advisers, and tutors, and will seek to shuffle them into a system that helps students more than the current one. "The present machinery doesn't function properly," Bender said...