Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Winter. The only agency which had the clear duty to "come in" was U.N.'s International Refugee Organization, but it could not begin to function until the General Assembly, scheduled to meet in September, formally organizes it and participating governments vote funds. Under the best of conditions, it could not take over the D.P.s until late next winter...
...widely noted. The world public would be content to see the Nürnberg criminals die, but it had not got around to distinguishing between criminal and legal war. Until the world public - or a considerable part of it- did that, Nürnberg convictions would be a function of victory rather than...
Mctecalf, who bears the title of Librarian of the College Library, Director of the University Library, and professor of bibliography, said Widener's primary function is as a research library. "Money is given to us to spend on research material, and we buy for research purposes. Our interest in books is to have them 10 or 15 years from now for research...
Harvard men who found the pickings at Radcliffe pretty slim last month can take heart and try again. The first postwar session of the Radcliffe Secretarial School, a function of the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau, has brought 80 female faces to the Cambridge scene. With courses in shorthand and typing, the school runs for six weeks through July and August. Classes meet in Longfellow Hall five days a week from 9 to 12 and 1 to 3 o'clock...
...best for the economy as a whole, yet each group finds excuses for allowing itself to be exempt from controls. The philosophy of Adam Smith's invisible hand which turned self-interest into the good of all has carried over into a dynamic society where it can no longer function, but the people refuse to forsake...