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Word: functional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolizes Dartmouth's reckless, bruising, headline-hunting attack, it is beefy defenseman George Pulliam. He also represents its weakness, if that's what you want to call it. Frequently, like a steam engine, the Indians do not function at peak efficiency, because their one and two-man attacks leave a lot of men standing around and their insistence on taking the puck up themselves rather than passing it up front consumes precious seconds...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

...improvements, budgets, and vacancies come under the jurisdiction of a School Committee headed by the Mayor. If there is no Mayor, the committee cannot function and any successful operation of the schools becomes impossible. Cambridge's educational program, recently the target of a lengthy report by Professor Simpson, is badly antiquated and desperately in need of overhauling. Any such revision of the school program can come only from the School Committee and for this reason alone the election of a Mayor is a matter that should be placed outside the realm of petty politics. Along with the general loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divide and Flounder | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Professor Kluckhohn insisted that human families throughout the world are all organized as to form and function in essentially the same manner. No matter how weird or barbaric certain family structures may seem to the western eye, they are all really "variations on a basic theme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kluckhohn Is Foe Of Fixed Culture Types | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Harvard CRIMSON has a more important function than merely to report the activities of the University. It should lead student thinking and should interpret the student point of view. It frequently has had an important role in molding the character of the University. It can have a very definite part in seeing to it that students of the University appreciate the opportunity of acquiring a superior education...

Author: By Gardner Cowles, | Title: Cowles Brothers See Crimson Vital Factor in College Life | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

...ambitious undergraduate, the Harvard CRIMSON offers an experience in practical journalism, politics and business which is hard to match. Its function as a constructive force in the evaluation of University policy and as a vehicle of student opinion is of self-evident importance to the University management: Few of us who worked on the CRIMSON will forget the satisfaction it brought us to see some of our needing result in significant changes in policy. The friendships formed at the CRIMSON through feverish efforts to meet deadlines and struggles to keep the paper solvent are likely to be lasting...

Author: By David Rockefeller, (BANKER--CHASE NATIONAL.) | Title: Good Experience, Says Rockefeller | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

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