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Word: functional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone lines in the Radcliffe and Wellesley dormitories. Since then there have been rumors that high Radcliffe authorities are looking into the situation. They wouldn't be high authorities, of course, if they didn't look into situations, and study matters, and investigate conditions. That is the rightful function of all high authorities and student council committees. But in the meantime the busy signals continue to buzz. And in the opinion of one non-authority who has never belonged to any student council of any kind, the solution is for somebody to decide to put in more telephone lines. This...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 12/4/1948 | See Source »

THANKS TO TIME FOR NEEDED ANTIDOTE TO RECENT SCARE BOOKS RE FOOD AND PEOPLE. BIOTIC POTENTIAL OF SOILS IS NOT A CONSTANT BUT RATHER A FUNCTION OF ADVANCING SCIENCE APPLIED TO BOTH CROPS AND SOILS . . . PRODUCTIVITY OF U.S. FARM LANDS IS RISING NOT FALLING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Yale's ten "colleges" serve just about the same function as Harvard's Houses, but it was like pulling teeth before Yale would accept the Harkness millions that made the project possible...

Author: By Sedgwick W. Green, | Title: Harkness Gave Houses as Spur for Yale's 'Colleges' | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...violation of student rights. The constitution of the Student Council, approved by the Dean's Office, has always specifically stated the right of free investigation. Moreover, Bender, the man who suggests the new regulation, told the Council at its first meeting of the fall that its chief function and value was as a "free investigatory and deliberative body," which has made some reports of "extraordinary significance" to University policy. Remove the freedom, and you undermine all such future reports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threat to Undergraduate Rights | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

...Gilbert libretti were written exclusively for the stage, and no amount of editing could possibly adapt them successfully to the screen. J. Arthur Rank's attempt is almost bizzare. Its cast is a mixture of stage and screen actors, each group obliged to assume the function of the other, and neither succeeding very well...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Mikado | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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