Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were rooted, he thought, in a common trust in democracy and the brotherhood of man. Said he: "We believe in the dignity of the individual. We believe that the function of the state is to preserve and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms. We believe that the state exists for the benefit of man, not that man exists for the benefit of the state. . . . We believe that each individual must have as much liberty for the conduct of his life as is compatible with the rights of others...
...Brooks Committee, revival of the pre-war organization, is an overall co-ordinating and introductory group. Its function is to acquaint all new men with the work and organization of PBH and to train them for service on one of the regular committees of the House...
...time the men a squatting under the Boston dome started to realize the true function of the educational facilities at Harvard. President Eliot's opulent days, which Mr. Scully smugly uses as a measure of the University today, are gone and forgotten. Today there are few profits. The Massachusetts Legislature, instead of sniping at the roots of established institutions, might well mend their own educational fences...
Miss Taylor's present assertion that she is not so much a "law-enforcing as a protective and preventive agent--a social worker in the police department," is the characteristic attitude of the entire bureau, whose function, according to Lieutenant Thomas J. Stokes, Bureau chief, "is to correct by adjustment...
...Primary function of the Center, Hamlen stated, would be as a sort of "transient meeting place where any of Harvard's 82,000 Alumni visiting Cambridge could hang their coat, rest their weary bones, or thaw out after a football game...