Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry awake to its possibilities. Among them is Charles Sieppmann. In his book, "Radio's Second Chance," he reminds us that following the wild wave length-pirating days of the 1920's the air was, at the request of the exhausted stations, declared public domain, and licensing made a function of the Federal Communications Commission. This means that the American people are "sleeping partners in the great enterprise of radio" and that through the judicious granting of licenses to the new Frequency Modulation stations the FCC can force radio to approximate standards set up by the listeners' councils which Sieppmann...
...inability to help the student on many problems, especially in the selection of courses which fall outside the advisor's own special field of concentration. And many an advisor is only himself a recent graduate, whose experience and ability in the technique of advising is necessarily limited. The single function which the system performs consistently is the careful signing of study cards once a term...
Standing alone as the function of the system is the signing of study cards. It requires little imagination to conceive of a less expensive and more efficient way of handling this matter of administration. When finances are one of the primary objections to more tutorial for worthy students, it is regrettable that appropriations should fall to an advisory system which is at best inadequate. It can only be adequate when there is available a supply of advisors with the ability and the time to offer a reasonable tutorial substitute for the masses...
...gimmick in high-temperature operation. The "spermatogenic" cells, which produce the male sperms, will not tolerate as much heat as the somatic (body) cells. When sperm cells get too hot, they stop working, causing sterility. Even the normal temperature of the blood is often too high for them to function...
...Last year, while dissecting Brewer's blackbirds (Euphagus cyanocephalus) he discovered that their testes moved downward and backward during the warm spring breeding season. In the new position they were "enveloped between the two dorsal folds of the abdominal air sacs." Cooled by circulating air, they could function properly, though the general body temperature might be much too high for them...