Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of Soviet divorce at a pen-scratch had been ended by 1944 decrees. New laws further restricting divorce are under consideration. Said Kolbanovsky: "The time will never come when parents are reduced to the function of producing children and handing their babies over to the state. . . . Love under Communism will become even more beautiful...
...even suspected that they had any unionists on their staffs. Actually, they had only a few. At Hutton, only 18 of 325 employees walked out. It looked as if Dave Keefe faced a long and probably a losing fight. Said Stock Exchange President Emil Schram: "We are prepared to function indefinitely ... we have lots of help on the floor...
...historical function of civilizations to serve, by their downfalls, as steppingstones to a progressive process of the revelation of always deeper religious insight . . . civilizations will have fulfilled their function when once they have brought a mature higher religion to birth; and, on this showing, our own Western post-Christian secular civilization might at best be a superfluous repetition of the pre-Christian Graeco-Roman one, and at worst a pernicious backsliding from the path of spiritual progress. In our Western world of today, the worship of Leviathan-the self-worship of the tribe -is a religion to which...
...fact that Radcliffe undergraduates are in Harvard classes certainly entitles them to special consideration, for the library's real function is to provide for the needs of those classes rather than for certain of the students in them. The Radcliffe Library, cited by non-believers as "where the girls belong," is hardly an answer to the problem. Its book resources are limited and its methods not designed to give really adequate service to all its students. Its function is, in fact, somewhat similar to the House libraries': to be convenient but by no means complete...
They Were Ready. They were "just plain scared" at the thought of another war. But most were resigned to the idea that "we've got to stop Russia." They were divided over U.M.T. and selective service; for one thing, they did not understand how the two operations would function, how they would be separated, or whether both were necessary. But they were convinced that hundreds of thousands of Americans had to put on uniforms. They were ready to believe George Marshall: that the nation had to regain "a reasonable military posture...