Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year 274 of the news stories TIME has printed have been contributed (or substantially contributed to) by our Chicago news bureau. Of all TIME'S 13 domestic bureaus (whose function is to give TIME its own intimate coverage of nationally interesting local news). Chicago has the most difficult geographical assignment. Its territory extends west to the Black Hills of the Dakotas, south as far as Oklahoma...
While taking their place in the working society, Harvard men become increasingly aware of permanent ties with the University. Perhaps the most routine of all alumni functions, or at least the function that brings the College into the minds of its graduates with the greatest frequency, is that of fundraising. Individually, alumni of the University have endowed Harvard with a great percentage of the 200 million dollars that form the capital backbone of the institution. But where these individual gifts come as a matter of individual, unorganized devotion, a large segment of the funds of the University are channeled through...
...student welfare. The quality of the delegates may well determine the success or failure of the Chicago conference, for in the past student gatherings have invariably sunk knee-deep in weighty resolutions instead of chasing after specific objectives. If a student organization can be set up now to function forcefully on such questions as GI allotments, the miserable condition of public education in the South, and religious and racial quotas in schools, the student's part in American education will have vastly increased in scope...
...delegates will have an important function. In making the final choices from the list of nominations suggested in the houses, the qualifications should be carefully kept in mind. We want to send the best and most informed and experienced students possible...
...largest research institutions in the world," says Charles A. Federer, Jr., Editor of the Observatory's monthly magazine, Sky and Telescope. The old refractor and meridan circle apparatus have been replaced long ago by more than 30 separate instruments, varied in design and highly specialized in function...