Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy wives; the War Service Committee promoted blood donations among the remaining undergraduate body and sold war bonds and stamps in the House dining halls at noontime. The traditional Freshman teas were a strong point in holdovers through the war. PBH is now gradually picking up its former peacetime function--the speakers committee, undergraduate faculty tutors, the social service committee, and the textbook loan library...
This war-stimulated phenomenon of forums was crystallized just a year ago when the Harvard Forum was founded with the specific function of stimulating student opinion. At the time of its inception it was to be a "wartime organization with peacetime objectives," and according to the Forum's president, this object has almost been fulfilled...
...although the University's plan for educational rehabilitation was beginning to function smoothly, all was not well according to President Conant. In his annual report for 1943-44, he warned of the educational dangers of the G.I. Bill, in that the length of education allowed a veteran at government expense was measured by the length of his military service rather than by his capacity to benefit from education...
...dialogue. At one point a female whispered urgently: "When you are ready, bang and get them out." Just as urgently, Council Chairman Dr. Quo Tai-chi of China replied: "I haven't got anything to bang with. They have deprived me of the instrument with which to function." All these were little things, but they made UNO something as believable to U.S. newspaper readers as the U.S. Congress or a C.I.O. convention. Perhaps not enough Americans were aware of the gravity of the Iranian problem and Ambassador Gromyko's walkout (see INTERNATIONAL). But few had ever really expected...
...chief social function was that of hunter, but Raven is not a success at the job. He prefers to lie under a tree and scratch. It is Raven's bad luck to live in a woman's world, run by women for women. Grandmother screams, "Get up," kicks him on the side of the skull. Grandmother also cooks the food, plants the crops. Her daughters (Raven's sisters) bear offspring after exposure to the moon and the rain, seldom allow Raven to share their...