Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solemn Ceremony. But there was still time left for the Lords to perform a fateful function. In their chamber, the Royal Assent was solemnly given to the Indian Independence Bill. In the presence of five royal commissioners (in cocked hats and scarlet robes with ermine and sable-edged capes), the clerk of the Parliament pronounced: "Le Roy Le veutl" (the king wills it). With these words, Britain had abandoned the greatest single base of her power. The subcontinent which Robert Clive's military mastery and Benjamin Disraeli's diplomatic craft had made the cornerstone of empire...
...privilege of crypto-Communists like RW, TW, WW, and AdB to give the Bill such an interpretation when it suits their fancy. All parties are to have an equal right before the law, and private persons are not to take over the police function at any time. Every citizen has a great duty to defend orderly process and the law as it stands, changing the law at will as his ideas about his society changes. This is very simple minded and rather 18th century, I'll admit, but no one has demonstrated that an administrative procedure based on mob violence...
...Hope (1937), one of his characters said: "The danger is that every man carries the desire for an apocalypse in himself. . . . By its very nature, the Apocalypse has no future-not even when it pretends to have one. . . . Our modest function . . . is to organize the Apocalypse...
...Switzerland he told the International Chamber of Commerce, which he had headed for two years: "Europe does not need to fear that an American postwar corrective recession will degenerate into a depression. . . . [Recessions] are necessary to reduce costs and prices to a level which permits an economy to function to best advantage. Moreover, they serve to increase labor productivity and managerial efficiency and lay the basis for further improvements in living standards...
Going on ten years old. the Hooper agency employs 500 people (including twelve experts in New York whose only function, says Hooper, is to smooth the ruffled hair of hucksters). Its income last year was $983,000. For 1947, things are looking...